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Comment: Factors for the growth of regionalism in India.

  • UPSC 2001
  • 20 marks
  • Federalism

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Regionalism is the political mobilisation of a territorially concentrated community around a shared marker — language, tribe, memory of deprivation — to claim resources, recognition or autonomy within the Union. It differs from sub-nationalism, where the community calls itself a nation, and from separatism, which seeks exit. Paul Brass held that in a country of…

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