"Throughout history India had never been carved up as a linguistic entity. Neither was it ever carved up on a religious basis. The entire India sub continent was carved up in states and kingdoms that were geographical entities and language and religion played no part in these divisions. This state of affairs continued for nearly 4000 years and even during the days of the British Raj, no division of India into states based on religion or language was ever contemplated. Thus India had states like Patiala, Hyderabad, Central provinces, United Provinces, North East frontier Agency and Madras and Bombay states. These were geographical entities and the people in these states spoke many languages. It should not be forgotten that India is home to some 15 major languages and 200 dialects. When Nehru became Prime Minister, the philosopher took over and he ignored 40000 years of history by setting up a commission to reorganize the Indian state and divide it on linguistic basis. One cannot think as to why Nehru tinkered with something that was sure to catch fire. But his muddled mind thought that a division of India on the basis of language was a good thing. Thus the States Reorganization Commission went to work and the centuries old Indian administrative regions were broken up into linguistic states with language as the basis of the state. Nehru died in 1964, but the linguistic states he created led to the unity and integrity of India being questioned. People of one language joined hands and fissiparous tendencies developed with regional outfits like the Shiv Sena coming up, who demanded that people speaking another language be ousted from the state. The linguistic states hit at the very roots of India as a unitary country. The situation is now bad and many states have debarred people from other states from voting and owning property. India may well pay a dear price for the folly of Nehru." - From the Hubpages.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:27:20 +0000
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