Bengali language movements in India

[1] The movement was started in Manbhum in 1940, ahead of the Partition of India which allocated eastern Bengal to the new nation of Pakistan and led to the relocation of many Bengali communities.

Bengali Hindus in this eastern region migrated to India, principally settling in West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Dandakaranya and Odisha,[3] Maharashtra, Karnataka.

When the Indian government imposed the Hindi language for Bengali speaking people living in Manbhum district of the state of Bihar, they forced the government to form a new district in the state of West Bengal by making this movement for Bangla language.

Although Bengal was declared the second official language under the pressure of Bengali movement in Jharkhand, it has not been implemented.

Apart from Bangla-speaking students, the deprivation has been accepted, Bengali medium schools have been converted through Hindi.

Besides, Bengalis from West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand and other Bengali-speaking states of India came to Delhi, before the Sindhi, Punjabis, and Baniya's.

According to the Indian population, approximately 2.5 million (25 lakhs) Bengali people live in Delhi.

Attempts at establishing a Bangla Academy in Delhi are currently underway due to the Bengali movement[15][16][17] teacher[18][19] Rajesh Sarkar.

[20][21][22][23][24] A section of the refugees of East Bengal took shelter in different villages of the southern state of Karnataka.