East Pakistan Renaissance Society

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The East Pakistan Renaissance Society was a political organisation formed to articulate and promote culturally and intellectually the idea for a separate Muslim state for Indian Muslims and specifically for the Muslims of Bengal.[1] The organisation's founders and leaders included Abul Kalam Shamsuddin, the society president, Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury and Mujibur Rahman Khan.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ a b Ian Talbott (1998). Pakistan: A Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 88–92. ISBN 978-0-312-21606-1.
  2. ^ Harun-or-Rashid (2003) [First published 1987]. The foreshadowing of Bangladesh: Bengal Muslim League and Muslim politics, 1906–1947 (Rev. and enl. ed.). University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-984-05-1688-9.
  3. ^ Nagendra Kr. Singh (2003). Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh. Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. pp. 180–82. ISBN 978-81-261-1390-3.
  4. ^ Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir, eds. (2012). "East Pakistan Renaissance Society". Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 24 November 2024.