Explore how cultural suppression, economic exploitation, and political betrayal transformed East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971's dramatic liberation war.
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The Language Movement showed that people's cultural identity—their language, their literature, their traditions—could be more powerful than religious doctrine when it comes to political loyalty.
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Give me an overview of the history of East Pakistan and how it became Bangladesh
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