Rehnuma Sazzad is an Associate and Research Fellow in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Decolonization, and British Cultural Studies. Her first monograph is Edward Said’s Concept of Exile (Bloomsbury 2017).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Language Movements and Struggles for Emancipation in South Asia.- Chapter 2: Dominations of Urdu and Sinhala Languages: Projected Majority and Professed Ethnicity.- Chapter 3: Secular versus Sectarian Ethos of the Bengali and Tamil Struggles.- Chapter 4: The Impact of Linguistic Struggles in the Emancipation of Bengali and Tamil Women.- Chapter 5: Identity Politics versus Bengali and Tamil Literary and Cultural Creations.- Chapter 6: Language Movements and the Armed Struggles of the Bengalis and Tamils.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Languages as a Prism to Armed Conflicts in Decolonized South Asia.

Rehnuma Sazzad is an Associate and Research Fellow in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Decolonization, and British Cultural Studies. Her first monograph is Edward Said’s Concept of Exile (Bloomsbury 2017).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Language Movements and Struggles for Emancipation in South Asia.- Chapter 2: Dominations of Urdu and Sinhala Languages: Projected Majority and Professed Ethnicity.- Chapter 3: Secular versus Sectarian Ethos of the Bengali and Tamil Struggles.- Chapter 4: The Impact of Linguistic Struggles in the Emancipation of Bengali and Tamil Women.- Chapter 5: Identity Politics versus Bengali and Tamil Literary and Cultural Creations.- Chapter 6: Language Movements and the Armed Struggles of the Bengalis and Tamils.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Languages as a Prism to Armed Conflicts in Decolonized South Asia.

Rehnuma Sazzad is an Associate and Research Fellow in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Decolonization, and British Cultural Studies. Her first monograph is Edward Said’s Concept of Exile (Bloomsbury 2017).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Language Movements and Struggles for Emancipation in South Asia.- Chapter 2: Dominations of Urdu and Sinhala Languages: Projected Majority and Professed Ethnicity.- Chapter 3: Secular versus Sectarian Ethos of the Bengali and Tamil Struggles.- Chapter 4: The Impact of Linguistic Struggles in the Emancipation of Bengali and Tamil Women.- Chapter 5: Identity Politics versus Bengali and Tamil Literary and Cultural Creations.- Chapter 6: Language Movements and the Armed Struggles of the Bengalis and Tamils.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Languages as a Prism to Armed Conflicts in Decolonized South Asia.