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Write short note : Regionalism.

  • UPSC 2007, 2003
  • Politics and Society in India

Regionalism is the consciousness of belonging to a distinct territorial community and the political assertion of that community's interests against a wider centre. Iqbal Narain treated it as a psycho-political phenomenon — a region's felt distinctiveness translated into demands. It is neither inherently anti-national nor merely primordial; in India it has been the ordinary grammar…

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