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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The East Pakistan
Renaissance Society was a political organisation formed to articulate
and promote culturally and intellectually the idea for a separate Muslim
state for Indian Muslims and specifically for the Muslims of Bengal. The
organisation's founders and leaders included Abul Kalam Shamsuddin, the
society president, Muhammad Habibullah Bahar and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The society dissolved after the partition of India in 1947, which also
partitioned Bengal to create the Muslim-majority East Bengal (also known
as East Pakistan), which became part of Pakistan; Hindu-majority West
Bengal and Assam became part of India. Several of the society's leaders
were leading activists in the Bengali language movement (1953-1956),
which was a mass struggle in East Pakistan for the recognition of the
Bengali language as the second official language of Pakistan, along with
Urdu.
