Bengali language movements in India

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The Bengali Language Movement is a campaign to preserve Bengali language and Bengalis culture and to oppose anti-Bengali sentiment in India.^[1] The movement was started in Manbhum in 1940, ahead of the Partition of India which allocated eastern Bengal to the new nation of Pakistan and led to the relocation of many Bengali communities.^[1] In 1947 British India bifurcated into India and Pakistan.^[2] The population of the eastern part of Bengal was majority Muslim, and was incorporated into Pakistan. Bengali Hindus in this eastern region migrated to India, principally settling in West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Dandakaranya and Odisha,^[3] Maharashtra, Karnataka.^[4] The Movement remains prominent in Assam, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka.^[5][3][4]