No national consciousness No Croat national consciousness among Bunjevci in 19th century Do I have to explain the term Botmagyarok Besides that one there were other hungarization pressures School in Croatian abolished etc The name of Croats was too provocative for Hungarian authorities memories from 1848 Hungarian national movement Cossuth s ideas outside of Croatia I m speaking about the Hungarian ruled part of Austria Hungary Bunjevci leaders concluded that it d be resulting at even bigger pressure to use their Croat name so they decided to hide behind more neutral more innocent name of Bunjevci for some reason local Bunjevci joined Hungarian cause against the Serbs although some Bunjevci leaders were against that At the end even the name Bunjevci was too provocating for Hungarian authorities so the various institutions dropped the Bunjevci bunjeva ki from their names in order to function properly Then came Kingdom of Yugoslavia and then the king imposed the policy of one nation three tribes Serb hegemonists didn t want to have 100 thousand Croats at the north of the country there was a army intelligence report to king about that Then came WWII and Axis and proaxis coutntries with their minority tolerance Socialist Tito s Yugoslavia began with good policy towards Croats from the north of Ba ka Bunjevci and okci Later things changed Croatian national theatre in Subotica abolished various institutions of Croats in Vojvodina lost adjective Croat in their names However Yugoslavia wasn t fabricating fake nations to decrease the number of Croats but saw the reality that Bunjevci and okci are Croats and showed them in statistics Ivan Sari was among those Croats