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Comment on Demands for the creation of new States in India. (150 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 12 marks
  • Federalism

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Demands for new States are the most numerous and least dangerous form of regional assertion: they accept the Union and ask only that Parliament redraw an internal line under Article 3. Louise Tillin (Remapping India, 2013) shows that India's internal map has never been settled; from 14 States in 1956 the count has reached 28,…

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