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International Journal of Political Science

Volume  5, Issue 2, July-December 2019, Pages 97-108
 

Review Article

Demand for Smaller States in India

K Kamala

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Govt Degree College Serilingampally, BHEL, Hyderabad, Telangana 502032, India.

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DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijpos.2454.9371.5219.2

Abstract

The demands for smaller States in India. If we go back to history of Political Science where the Greek Philosopher Plato suggested a State should have a population of 5040, Rousseau enough to make on ideal State 10,000. Significantly, the necessity of new States and their local importance should be analyzed. The historical institutionalism framework also helps to explain why over the time State borders have become less stable and subject to change in some parts of the federation and not in others. Borders, understood as a form of institution, rest on the notion that they are critical element influencing competition among groups. Struggles over the size and shape of the State are part of the ‘rules of the game’: which interests are legitimate, what resources can be mobilized, the questions that are open for debate, and how these change. In a complex country like India with a huge diversity, all efforts should be made to integrate the people in the national mainstream. No Indian should think of himself/herself belonging to a particular State or region and should think of being only an Indian. Creating the new States on the basis of the distinct cultures of their people in the region serves only to create and foster artificial barriers among the people. This is undesirable for the future of India in the long run. Secondly, where the demand for new States have been raised on the issue of development, study should be conducted whether creation of the new State would promote faster development or whether the new State would be perennially dependent on the central government can carry out uniform development of all the States in India, there would be no incentive for demanding a new State on the issue of development and the time and energy that is being wasted on the demand for new Statehood will be saved.

Keywords: Government; Uniform development; Smaller state; Reorganization; TRS.


Corresponding Author : K Kamala