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“The movement for linguistic States generated deep apprehensions among the nationalist elite. They feared it would lead to the Balkanization of India.” Examine.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Consolidation as a Nation

The linguistic-states movement of the late 1940s and 1950s arrived at exactly the moment India's leadership was most anxious about the country's capacity to hold together, and that anxiety left a deep imprint on how reorganisation was ultimately handled.

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  • The Roots of the Anxiety: Partition as Immediate Memory
  • Elite Articulations of the Balkanization Fear
  • External Reinforcement of Elite Anxiety
  • The Reluctant Concession
  • The Verdict of Hindsight

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