期刊名称：South Asian Studies : A Research Journal of South Asian Studies
印刷版ISSN：1026-678X
出版年度：2016
卷号：31
期号：1
页码：117-135
出版社：University of the Punjab, Lahore
摘要：Separatist tendencies emerged in India and Pakistan even before the end of colonial rule in bothcountries in 1947. The political leadership of these states while dominating the political systemsin their respective countries equally demonstrated much determination to curb the separatism.However their response to the challenge of separatist movements, particularly in Indian TamilNadu and Pakistani East Bengal, was different to each other. The outcome of separatistmovements in two regions were altogether dissimilar. Indian leadership succeeded in repealingthe Tamil Movement while Pakistani leadership fell short to the Bengali Movement. This paper isan attempt to expose that India and Pakistan both remained leader centred political systemsduring most of the time when they were confronted with the challenge of separatism in TamilNadu and East Pakistan respectively. While revealing the features of Tamil and BengaliMovement it compares the responses of Indian and Pakistani leadership to the challenges in theirrelevant spheres. The measures adopted by the political leadership of these countries to appeasethese movements have been explored in comparison with each other. The dealing of languageissue, central to the separatism in both cases, has been specially assessed for the comparativestudy of response to challenge of separatism.
关键词：Separatist Movements; Leaders; Centralization; Autonomy; Language
