Lal Salam
Lal Salam(Bengali:লাল সেলাম,Hindi:लाल सलाम,Urdu:لال سلام;transl."Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used bycommunistsinSouth Asia.The phrase is a compound oflāl,meaning "red" inHindustani,andsalām,meaning "peace", a contraction of the Arabic phraseas-salāmu ʿalaykum,a Muslim greeting meaning "peace be upon you".
Further reading
[edit]- Ali, Kamran Asdar (2015).Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972.Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-940308-0.