Purba Pakistan Sahitya Sangsad (East Pakistan Literary Society) was a literary society of Bengali Muslims created to encourage Muslim nationalism in favor of Pakistan. It was located in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Scheme, One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India ...

History

Purba Pakistan Sahitya Sangsad was established in 1942 in Dhaka following the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution by the All India Muslim League. The same year the

East Pakistan Renaissance Society 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 organisatio ...

was founded in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

for similar reasons. The Purba Pakistan Sahitya Sangsad promoted Muslim nationalism and encouraged support for Pakistan. It wanted to create a literary culture that reflected Islamic traditions. It encouraged the use of loan words from Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages to use in Bengali Literature. The founding President was Syed Sajjad Husain and the secretary was

Syed Ali Ahsan Syed Ali Ahsan ( bn, সৈয়দ আলী আহসান; 26 March 1922 – 25 June 2002) was a Bangladeshi poet, writer and university academic. He was awarded Ekushey Padak (1982) and Independence Day Award (1987) by the Government of Bang ...

. It published a weekly journal ''Paksik Pakistan'' (''Pakistan Fortnightly''). The organization was active till the Partition of India in 1947. It declined with the growing disillusionment of Bengalis in the Pakistan state and ended after the 1952 Language movement.

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