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Bangla-centric en · ADJ

Etymology

From Bangla + -centric.

Meanings

1. Emphasizing the Bengalis, their culture or what is in their language.
   • Most of these criticisms of Nirad Chaudhuri are representations of other views expressed elsewhere: a 'gratuitous' use of literary references (63), a refusal to consider 'economic factors' in his interpretation of history (68), a Bangla-centric obsession with the 'decline of Bengal' thesis (106), […] 2015 September 3, Ian Almond, The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
   • Mujib's Bangla-centric strategy created much bad blood against him and his party in West Pakistan. 2004, ʻAbdurraḥmān Ṣiddīqī, East Pakistan the End Game: An Onlooker's Journal 1969-1971, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
   • The right wing Islamic groups and leaders who disputed the Bangla-centric secular nationalism have been insisting that separation from Pakistan did not mark the end of a predominantly Muslim consciousness in Bangladesh. 1997, Mohammad Rashiduzzaman, “Bangladesh: From a Nation to a State”, in Pacific Affairs, volume 70, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN:

Forms

Relateds

Banglacentrism

Translations (5)

fi banglakeskeinen (focused on Bengali) · nl banglacentrisch (focused on Bengali) · de banglazentrisch (focused on Bengali) · bn বাংলাকেন্দ্রিক (focused on Bengali) · fr banglacentriste (focused on Bengali)