Abstract
ON October 8, 1958, the Martial Law Administrator of East Pakistan, then in office only one day, issued a series of 48 orders, the last of which read: No person in the Martial Law area shall publish, print, circulate, or cause to be printed or circulated or otherwise be in possession of any pamphlet, poster, publication or any type of literature calculated to promote or attempt to promote feeling of enmity or hatred between persons of different provinces and speaking different languages. For violation of this order, the maximum punishment was death. With this bold statement the new military regime declared its opposition to regionalism and its readiness to enforce its view. Its attitude
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