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Bengali textbooks and novels being burnt outside the Manipur Legislative Assembly premises by protesters demanding that Meitei should substitute Bengali in educational institutions, in Imphal in February 2005.

Recognising territorial links to languages essential for Indian federalism

Territorial identification and recognition of languages has been an integral part of the federal structure of post-independence India. Policymakers an
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Home Minister Amit Shah speaking during the “Hindi Divas Samaroh” in New Delhi on September 14.

Hindi card for a Hindu Rashtra

The ideology of Akhand Bharat sees the multiple diversities, whether linguistic, cultural or social, as threats to achieving the goal of a Hindu Rasht
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The draft states that all students from preschool and grade 1 onwards will be exposed to three or more languages.

Resistance to formula

Education is in the Concurrent List, and any issues relating to it is determined by both the Centre and the State government concerned. Therefore, the
Asha Sarangi
Activists from the All Bodo Students Union (ABSU) along with other Bodo organisations block railway tracks during a protest at a railway station at Kokrajhar in the northeastern Indian state of Assam August 2, 2013. Thousands of activists on Friday protested against the Indian government to demand for a separate Bodoland state carved out of Assam, activists said. REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS EDUCATION TRANSPORT)

Division spurs growth?

The demand for separate statehood in various parts of the country forces us to examine the complex relationships intersecting the boundaries of identi
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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU AT the Kurnool railway station on October 2, 1953. Andhra attained statehood on October 1, 1953, with Kurnool as its capital. On November 1, 1956, the Andhra State was merged with the Telangana region of the Hyderabad State to form Andhra Pradesh.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Reorganisation, then and now

THE demand for the formation of a Telangana state has been voiced for more than fifty years now. Soon after the creation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 as
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