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.India is a federal union of states[1] comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories.^ India States and Union Territories map .
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 ^ Administratively, India is divided into 28 states and seven union territories.
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 ^ India is divided into twenty-eight states and seven federally-governed union territories.

 .The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.^ All states and union territories are subdivided into districts.
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 ^ Union Territories: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and Nagar Haveli Daman and Diu Lakshadweep Puducherry National Capital Territory of Delhi All states and union territories are subdivided into districts.

 ^ The country is divided for administrative purposes into twenty–eight linguistically–based states, plus a further seven small "Union Territories" administered directly by the central government in New Delhi, the national capital.
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List of states and territories

Map of India showing its subdivision into states and territories.
Administrative divisions of India, including 28 states and 7 union territories.
States:
  1. Andhra Pradesh
  2. Arunachal Pradesh
  3. Assam
  4. Bihar
  5. Chhattisgarh
  6. Goa
  7. Gujarat
  1. Haryana
  2. Himachal Pradesh
  3. Jammu and Kashmir
  4. Jharkhand
  5. Karnataka
  6. Kerala
  7. Madhya Pradesh
  1. Maharashtra
  2. Manipur
  3. Meghalaya
  4. Mizoram
  5. Nagaland
  6. Orissa
  7. Punjab
  1. Rajasthan
  2. Sikkim
  3. Tamil Nadu
  4. Tripura
  5. Uttar Pradesh
  6. Uttarakhand
  7. West Bengal
Union Territories:
  1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  2. Chandigarh
  3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  4. Daman and Diu
  5. Lakshadweep
  6. National Capital Territory of Delhi
  7. Puducherry

Responsibilities and authorities of the states compared to the national government

History

Pre-1956

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.The subcontinent of India has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each imposing their own administrative divisions on the region.^ A Union Territory is an administrative division of India.
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 ^ Typically holding together is a strategy used to cope with ethnic divisions, by giving groups that are minorities in the larger polity their own states in which they constitute a majority.
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 ^ This region acquired an independent political status in January 20th, 1972, when it was declared as Union Territory, an administrative division of India ruled directly by the national government, under the name of Arunachal Pradesh.
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 .Modern India's current administrative divisions are fairly recent developments, which began to develop during British occupation of India.^ A Union Territory is an administrative division of India.
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 ^ Chennai was developed significantly during the British rule, because it was the center of the East India Trading Company; it has remained a thriving city since Independence.

 ^ The four sub-regions merged during the several centuries of administrative and social history before British role.
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 .British India included almost all of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.^ Indian forces rapidly advanced into East Pakistan; the war ended in two weeks with the creation of independent Bangladesh to replace East Pakistan, and the refugees returned from India.
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 ^ If the whole of Kashmir including POK were to go to India then it would pose a direct threat to Pakistan's North West Frontier and Pakistani Punjab.
  • IEER | Kashmir, Nuclear Weapons and Peace by Adm. Ramdas 31 January 2010 14:014 UTC www.ieer.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ India's relations with Pakistan were again put under strain following the November 2008 Mumbai attacks in which over 160 were killed, including two Australians.
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 .During this period, regions of India were either directly ruled by the British or as Princely States ruled by local rajas.^ India under British Rule .
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 ^ British Rule in India (47) .
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 ^ State extinguished and annexed to British India .

 .Independence in 1947 largely preserved these divisions, with the provinces of Punjab and Bengal being divided between India and Pakistan.^ Aug 1947 Partitioned between India (Amritsar) and Pakistan (Lahore).

 ^ India and Pakistan became independent on A4 August 1947.

 ^ Nov 1948 Poonch divided between India and Pakistan.

 .One of the first challenges for the new nation was the integration of the multitude of princely states into the union.^ Union Territories: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and Nagar Haveli Daman and Diu Lakshadweep Puducherry National Capital Territory of Delhi All states and union territories are subdivided into districts.

 ^ The country is divided for administrative purposes into twenty–eight linguistically–based states, plus a further seven small "Union Territories" administered directly by the central government in New Delhi, the national capital.
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 ^ If that [Federalist] Party are not effectually put down in Massachusetts, as completely as they already are in New York, and Pennsylvania, and all the southern and western states, the Union is gone.
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.Following independence, however, instability soon arose in India.^ The historical discussion that follows deals, until Indian independence, with the Indian subcontinent, which includes the regions that are now Bangladesh and Pakistan , and thereafter concentrates on the history of India.
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 ^ Since its inception as an independent nation in 1947, India has followed its own drumbeat in developing foreign policy.

 .Many of the provinces had been created by the British to serve their colonial purposes and as such did not reflect either the will of India's citizens or the ethnic divisions found throughout the subcontinent.^ Provinces were British territories directly administered by the colonial government of British India .

 ^ Two of the main purposes behind its creation appear to have been the consolidation of British rule in central, hinterland India, and the development of the comparatively backward area.
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 ^ The phrase "British India" is used for U.K. colonial possessions even before 1858, for brevity.

 .Ethnic tensions spurred the Indian Parliament to reorganize the country along ethnic and linguistic lines in 1956 by means of the States Reorganisation Act.^ In 1956, under the States Reorganisation Act, states were formed on a linguistic basis.
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 ^ The states of the republic were reorganized several times along linguistic lines.
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 ^ It was the Indian Center that reorganized the states along linguistic lines in 1956, and it is both houses of the national parliament that must initiate any redrawing of Indian state borders or renaming of Indian states, as they did in 2000.
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After 1956

The former French and Portuguese colonies in India were incorporated into the Republic as the union territories of Pondicherry, Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1962.
.Several new states and union territories have been created out of existing states since 1956. Bombay State was split into the linguistic states of Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960 [2] by the Bombay Reorganization Act.^ Maharashtra 15 Aug 1947 Bombay province 26 Jan 1950 State 1 May 1960 Divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat .

 ^ All states and union territories are subdivided into districts.
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 ^ May 1960 Part of Gujarat .

 .Nagaland was made a state on 1 December 1963.[3].^ Dec 1963 Nagaland state created from part of Assam .

 .The Punjab Reorganization Act of 1966 divided the Punjab along linguistic and religious lines, creating a new Hindu and Hindi-speaking state of Haryana on 1 November [4], transferring the northern districts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh, and designating Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, a union territory.^ The longest railway line is from Pathankot in Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal Pradesh.
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 ^ All states and union territories are subdivided into districts.
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 ^ States and union territories .
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.Statehood was conferred upon Himachal Pradesh on 25 January 1971, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura on 21 January 1972.[5] The Kingdom of Sikkim joined the Indian Union as a state on 26 April 1975.[6] In 1987, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram became states on 20 February, followed by Goa on 30 May, while Goa's northern exclaves of Daman and Diu became a separate union territory.^ Second, Arunachal Pradesh is India's territory.

 ^ Mizoram 21 Jan 1972 Mizoram Union territory created from part of Assam .

 ^ Manipur 15 Oct 1949 State 1 Nov 1956 Union territory 21 Jan 1972 State .

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.In 2000 three new states were created; Chhattisgarh (November 1, 2000) was created out of eastern Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal (November 9, 2000), since renamed Uttarakhand, was created out of the Hilly regions of northwest Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand (15 November 2000) was created out of the southern districts of Bihar.^ Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal) 9 Nov 2000 Uttaranchal state created from part of Uttar Pradesh .

 ^ Bihar has a short border with Madhya Pradesh to the southwest, and its western border is with Uttar Pradesh.
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 ^ Chhattisgarh was formed in November 2000 from the eastern part of the territory of the old Madhya Pradesh state.
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 The Union Territories of Delhi and Pondicherry (renamed to Puducherry) have since been given the right to elect their own legislatures and they are now counted as small states

Late 2009

.Ahead of the 2009 General Elections in India all the major parties in Andhra Pradesh supported Telangana statehood.^ Areas of India with Malaria: All areas throughout country except no malaria in areas > 2,000 m (> 6,561 ft) in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Kashmir, and Sikkim.
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 ^ Though largely dormant (and nonviolent) since Andhra’s creation, the independence push was revived in the 1990s when the BJP (India’s main opposition party today) promised the Telangana a state of their own, a claim the BJP renewed in this year’s general elections.
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 ^ India is a viable player in supporting all naval missions, including escorting and responding to regional crises.
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On Dec 9th 2009, 11:30 PM, Mr. P. Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs, on behalf of the Government of India announced that a resolution in the Andhra Pradesh assembly for the creation of a separate Telangana state will be passed. Mr. Chidambaram also informed that process for the formation of a separate Telangana state will be initiated soon. .The Process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated.^ By JIM YARDLEY; HARI KUMAR CONTRIBUTED REPORTING. K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s hunger strike successfully persuaded the federal government to initiate the process of creating a state for the Telangana minority.
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 ^ The present State of Rajasthan was formed after a long process of integration which began on March 17, 1948 and ended on November 1, 1956.
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 ^ India is in a very vulnerable moment in this process as is evident from an examination of the myriad territories and forces fighting for autonomy in some form from the Indian state.
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.As a result of this unilateral decision made by the Government of India, Several members of Andhra Pradesh's legislature submitted their resignations to protest the creation of the new state.^ The creation of new states is not exactly a novel enterprise in India.
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 ^ India is a union of 28 states, each with their own legislature and state government.
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 ^ India's States: National capital territory: Delhi Andhra Pradesh .
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 [8] .As of 11 December, at least 117 legislators and many Members of Parliament had resigned in protest of the Government's decision to carve out a new state of Telangana.^ Under the terms laid out by Home Minister P. Chidambaram, the state legislature in Andhra will consider a resolution to carve out a separate state encompassing 10 existing districts where the Telangana ethnic group are dominant.
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 ^ Its fate remains in question and at least one Telegana leader has threatened civil war if Hyderabad is not included in the new state (becoming a Union Territory, ruled by the federal government, is the other plausible alternative).
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 ^ If we multiply the total membership by 2 1/2 we have 4,557,117, which represents, approximately, the enrolled members membership and constituency of Negro Methodism in the United States.
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 [9] .Most of this Legislators/MPs' resigned belong to Andhra/Rayalaseema region.^ The potential political fallout for Congress is already evident: Dozens of state and national legislators (93 by one count) have already resigned or signaled their intention to resign as Congress faces a backlash from Andhra MPs adamantly opposed to its decision.
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.The famous slogan "UNITED WE RISE DIVIDED WE FALL" got attention all over AP.First time in the history a movement for Unitedhood developed.^ This happens in the United States all the time so the fact that it happened here in India simply means that this behavior also transcends cultures.
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 ^ Over time, ethnic and territorial definitions became the boundaries for national identity formations; they grew roots and developed as a secular and dominant form of political identity in lieu of memories of a united Islamic world in history.
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 ^ PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, I think that the United States and India are natural allies not just around counterterrorism issues, but on a whole host of issues.
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 .The movement soon gained momentum all over the state and Students, lawers, farmers, NGO's, Political parties etc joined the "Samaikyaandhra movment". Several leaders and students went on FAST the number is still growing..Stunned by the tremendous response for the UNITY, GOI is not sure what to do and engaged a discussion with all parties.^ The civil disobedience movement, which rocked India in 1915, led to severe reaction in the Jammu province of the State, from where thousands of volunteers went to the Punjab to join the civil disobedience movement.
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 ^ The United States has a two-party system, but in India candidates for seats in the Lok Sabha may belong to one of many different political parties.
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 ^ The sudden emancipation of almost 4,000,000 Negro slaves meant new and tremendous responsibilities for the loyal and philanthropic people of the Northern States.
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 The decision is Pending.
.Many UPA alliance members opposed this decision and Congress government is under pressure.^ Our argument that India is likely to strike focused, among other points, on the weakness of the current Indian government and how it is likely to fall under pressure from the opposition and the public if it does not act decisively.
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 ^ Most probably because if they confirmed the report, the Pakistani government would be under more pressure to do something about Laskhar-e-Taiba.
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 ^ In the May 2009 elections, the Congress Party and its allies in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) were returned to power with a total of 261 parliamentary seats out of a total of 543.
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 .NCP, DMK,TMC of UPA and NC, SS, RJD, PRP, TDP, CPM parties are against dividing the state.^ The New York cession was accepted against the vote of Virginia, with two states divided; the Virginia cession against the vote of New Jersey, with South Carolina divided; the Massachusetts cession with New York divided, and the Connecticut cession against the vote of Maryland, with four states divided.
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See also

.As on Dec 14th 2009, Indian government is in dilemma whether to proceed with the Telangana state or not.^ Now, the armed conflict which exists in almost 13 eastern Indian states is fought concerning incompatibility about power over the government.
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 ^ In July, 2008, the Communists withdrew from the governing coalition after the prime minister decided to proceed with the nuclear pact signed with the United States.
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 ^ Having assumed direct control over the State, the British Government reorganized the entire administration of the State on the basis of the departmental organization they had introduced in the Indian provinces and the other Indian States.
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 .Still government is in ambiguity situation to take the decision on Telangana.^ In a communication received on 12 November 1975, the Government of Denmark declared that it had withdrawn the above-mentioned declaration, this decision to take effect on 1 January 1976.
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 ^ The Crown Representative is still the Crown Representative and he could direct the Government to take steps to move the troops out of State territory by the 15th August.
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References

  1. ^ a b "States and union territories". http://www.india.gov.in/knowindia/state_uts.php. Retrieved 2007-09-07.  
  2. ^ J.C. Aggarwal and S.P. Agrawal, editors, Uttarakhand: Past, Present, and Future (New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1995), p89-90
  3. ^ Ibid. at 91
  4. ^ Ibid. at 89
  5. ^ Ibid. at 89-90, 92
  6. ^ Ibid. at 92
  7. ^ Ibid. at 89, 91
  8. ^ Press Trust of India (December 10, 2009). "60 AP MLAs submit resignation to protest Telangana creation". Business Standard. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/60-ap-mlas-submit-resignation-to-protest-telangana-creation/80453/on. Retrieved 10 December 2009.  
  9. ^ "Telangana: Shutdown in Andhra Pradesh, 117 legislators quit". Times of India. December 11, 2009. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Telangana-Shutdown-in-Andhra-Pradesh-117-legislators-quit/articleshow/5325650.cms. Retrieved 10 December 2009.  

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.India is a federal republic comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories.^ India States and Union Territories map .
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 ^ Administratively, India is divided into 28 states and seven union territories.
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 ^ India: figures and rates by state and territory .
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 .The states and territories are themselves further subdivided.^ The states and territories are themselves further subdivided .
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 ^ The states and territories are themselves further subdivided.The states of India enjoy certain powers and priviledges.
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 ^ All states and union territories are subdivided into districts.
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Pre-1956

.The subcontinent of India has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each imposing their own administrative divisions on the region.^ The subcontinent of India has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each imposing their own administrative divisions on the region.
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 ^ During this period, regions of India were either directly ruled by the British or under the control of local rajas .
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 ^ Many of the states had been arbitrarily created by the British to serve their colonial purposes and as such, did not reflect either the will of India's citizens or the vast ethnic diversity found throughout the subcontinent.
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 .Modern India's current administrative divisions are fairly recent developments, which began to develop during British colonial rule of India.^ British Rule in India (47) .
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 ^ India under British Rule .
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 ^ Modern India's current administrative divisions are fairly recent developments, which began to develop during British colonial rule of India.
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 .British India included all of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as well as the associated protectorates of Afghanistan and Burma (Myanmar).^ British India included all of present-day India , Pakistan , and Bangladesh , as well as the associated protectorates of Afghanistan and Burma ( Myanmar ).
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 ^ Bangladesh, and Myanmar are to the east of India.

 ^ India is now bordered by Pakistan,Afghanistan, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh.

 .During this period, regions of India were either directly ruled by the British or under the control of local rajas.^ During this period, regions of India were either directly ruled by the British or under the control of local rajas .
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 ^ India under British Rule .
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 ^ British Rule in India (47) .
  • || Satyameva Jayate || » Blog Archive » Join the Debate – Are smaller states good for India? 31 January 2010 14:014 UTC satyameva-jayate.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Independence in 1947 largely preserved these divisions, with the exception of areas like the Punjab and Bengal, which were divided between India and Pakistan.^ Mainly in the Punjab area of Pakistan .
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 ^ Independence in 1947 largely preserved these divisions, with the exception of areas like the Punjab and Bengal , which were divided between India and Pakistan .
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 ^ Aug 1947 Partitioned between India (Amritsar) and Pakistan (Lahore).

 .One of the first challenges for the new nation was the integration of the multitude of princely states into the union.^ Incorporation of Foreign States into the Union.
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 ^ Formation of new States within the Union.
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 ^ One of the first challenges for the new nation was the integration of the multitude of princely states into the union.
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.Following independence, however, instability soon arose.^ Following independence, however, instability soon arose.
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 .Many of the states had been arbitrarily created by the British to serve their colonial purposes and as such, did not reflect either the will of India's citizens or the vast ethnic diversity found throughout the subcontinent.^ Many of the states had been arbitrarily created by the British to serve their colonial purposes and as such, did not reflect either the will of India's citizens or the vast ethnic diversity found throughout the subcontinent.
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 ^ How many states comprise India?

 ^ State extinguished and annexed to British India .

 Ethnic tensions spurred the Indian Parliament to reorganize the country along ethnic and linguistic lines in 1956.

After 1956

The former French and Portuguese colonies in India were incorporated into the Indian Republic as the union territories of Puducherry, Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1962.
.Several new states and union territories have been created out of existing states since 1956. Bombay State was split into the linguistic states of Gujarat and Maharashtra on May 1 1960 by the Bombay Reorganisation Act.^ Under the States Reorganization Act of 1956, there were 14 states and five union territories, organized, where appropriate, on linguistic grounds.

 ^ India States and Union Territories map .
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 ^ Maharashtra 15 Aug 1947 Bombay province 26 Jan 1950 State 1 May 1960 Divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat .

 .The Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the Punjab along linguistic and religious lines, creating a new Hindu and Hindi-speaking state of Haryana, transferring the northern districts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh, and designating Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, a union territory.^ India States and Union Territories map .
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 ^ By the Punjab Accord, Chandigarh union territory would eventually merge with Punjab state.
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 ^ Status of Arunachal Pradesh changed from union territory to state.
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 .Nagaland was made a state in 1962, Meghalaya and Himachal Pradesh in 1971, and Tripura and Manipur in 1972. Arunachal Pradesh was made a union territory in 1972. The Kingdom of Sikkim was annexed to India as a state in 1975. Mizoram was made a state in 1986, and Goa and Arunachal Pradesh in 1987, while Goa's northern exclaves of Daman and Diu became a separate union territory.^ India comprises 28 States and seven Union Territories.
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 ^ Second, Arunachal Pradesh is India's territory.

 ^ Goa became another Union Territory in 1962 followed by the formation of Nagaland, Mizoram (union territory in 1972, became a state in 1986) and Meghalaya between 1963 and 1972.In 1975, Sikkim, which was an independent kingdom, was merged with India as a separate state.
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 .In 2000 three new states were created; Jharkhand was created out of the southern districts of Bihar, Chhattisgarh was created out of eastern Madhya Pradesh, and Uttaranchal was created out of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.^ Statistics suggest that the three new, smaller states of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have done better than their parents.
  • Al Jazeera English - Focus - India's quest for smaller states 31 January 2010 14:014 UTC english.aljazeera.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In November 2000, India gained three new states - Chattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh , Uttaranchal out of Uttar Pradesh , and Jharkhand out of Bihar .
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 ^ Uttarakhand (Uttaranchal) 9 Nov 2000 Uttaranchal state created from part of Uttar Pradesh .

 .The Union Territories of Delhi and Pondicherry have since been given the right to elect their own legislatures, and hence are on their way to full statehood.^ The Union Territories of Delhi and Pondicherry (renamed to Puducherry) have since been given the right to elect their own legislatures and they are now counted as small states.

 ^ However, several union territories have their own elected governments.
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 ^ Delhi union territory.
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States and Territories

Administrative divisions of India, including 28 states and 7 union territories.
States:
  1. Andhra Pradesh
  2. Arunachal Pradesh
  3. Assam
  4. Bihar
  5. Chhattisgarh
  6. Goa
  7. Gujarat
  8. Haryana
  9. Himachal Pradesh
  10. Jammu and Kashmir
  11. Jharkhand
  12. Karnataka
  13. Kerala
  14. Madhya Pradesh
  1. Maharashtra
  2. Manipur
  3. Meghalaya
  4. Mizoram
  5. Nagaland
  6. Orissa
  7. Punjab
  8. Rajasthan
  9. Sikkim
  10. Tamil Nadu
  11. Tripura
  12. Uttar Pradesh
  13. Uttarakhand
  14. West Bengal
Union Territories:
  1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  2. Chandigarh
  3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  4. Daman and Diu
  5. Lakshadweep
  6. National Capital Territory of Delhi
  7. Puducherry

See also

References

  1. ^ States and union territories (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-09-07.

External links

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 ^ Hindi is the official language, but English is also widely used.
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 ^ Although Hindi (spoken in the north) and English (the language of politics and commerce) are used officially, more than 1,500 languages and dialects are spoken.
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 .The original content was at States and territories of India.^ India States and Union Territories map .
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 ^ India has 28 States and 6 Union Territories.
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 ^ India has 28 states* and 7 union territories.
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