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Write short note on Factors responsible for increasing demands for the formation of separate states.

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  • Politics and Society in India

The States Reorganisation Commission of 1953–55 settled India's internal map largely on language, and the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was expected to close the question. It did not. Statehood demands have multiplied since, but on a changed basis: the claim is now made in the idiom of development and administration rather than of language, which…

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