English & Imperialism

English and imperialism in Bangladesh

Last week I have read an important feature on net and I like the theme so much which have focused on that feature. And I have decided to choose the theme for the weekly assignment for this week.

At first it must to say that there is a common scenario for Bangladeshis, from highly educated person to rickshaw drivers; they all feel proud to learn English and wish to forget their mother language of Bangla. Even though these people dream in Bangla, think in Bangla and have their inner growth and imagination begin and end in Bangla, they still want to deny its existence. Some feel sad that their mother tongue was not English by birth. Even I am also think like this way. The victory of English and the criticism of the mother tongue of Bangla in Bangladesh are so much tragic. The rapidly increasing growth of English-speaking schools recalls colonization to mind, where the education systems controlled by the colonial powers spread English.I have known from the feature that in British India, the colonial forces tried their best to learn the native Indian languages, but found it really hard to master the more than 29 spoken languages present in India. They found it was easier to have the Indian people learn English instead. When the colonial forces were kicked out from the Indian subcontinent, the nation needed to make improvement in the use of language and oppose the negative impact of having English as the primary and formal language used at the administrative level. In 1935, Calcutta University took the proposal and introduced Bangla as the language of education together with English. In Bangladesh, the use of Bangla at the college level started in the 1960s. This system continues on the Indian subcontinent. After the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan, the government of Bangladesh made the decision to replace English with Bangla at the administrative level, but after the death of Sheikh Mujib, this process came to break...