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Distributional pattern of industries in India does not provide requisite basis for division of the country into distinct industrial regions. Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Industry

A formal industrial region demands three things: internal homogeneity above a declared threshold, spatial contiguity, and a boundary at which the defining property falls away. India's industrial surface delivers none of the three cleanly.

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  • The Criteria Do Not Converge
  • Contiguity Is Broken by the Way India Industrialised
  • The Counter-Case: Some Regions Are Genuinely Delimitable
  • Verdict

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