Majoritarian Nationalist Discourse and Cultural Heterogeneity in Bangladesh

Bangladesh unlike India and Pakistan is perceived to be a largely homogeneous country as the statistics fortifies that about 98 per cent people speak Bengali, the state language and about 90 percent are Muslims. As a consequence, more than 45 ethnic minorities constitute less than two per cent of the total population. Notwithstanding the projection of one nation, one language and one religion, in reality Bangladesh manifests interesting mosaic of diversity within this apparently homogeneous land. Bangladesh is multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious plural society which embellishes different cultural shades among people across this nation.