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Independence brought cultural autonomy to the delta and a new project of nation-building. Now its inhabitants were invited to imagine themselves as Bangladeshis. For people who were then in their lives this was the third invitation to join a nation. They had been born as British Indian subjects, had grown up with the Indian Nationalist movement and had become Pakistanis in their thirties. now they were Bangladeshis, and they saw a new national culture taking shape. Its main pillars were language, a regional style and a search for modernity.
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