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What were reasons and effects of accepting the demands for separate states on linguistic claims?

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The demands for separate states on linguistic claims were accepted for the following reasons :

(i) It was hoped that if the demand for separate states on linguistic basis are accepted then the threat of division and separatism would be reduced.

(ii) Accommodation of regional demands and the formation of linguistic states were also seen as more democratic.

Its effects were :

(i) It has changed the nature of democratic politics and leadership in some basic ways. The path to politics and power was now open to people other than the small English speaking elite.

(ii) It gave uniform basis to the drawing of state boundaries.

(iii) It has infact strengthened national unity contrary to the belief that it would lead to disintegration of the country.

(iv) The linguistic states underlined the acceptance of the principle of diversity. Democracy was now associated with plurality of ideas and ways of life. Much of the politics in the later period had taken place within this framework.

Some More Questions From Challenges of Nation Building Chapter

It is said that the nation is to a large extent an “imagined community” held together by common beliefs, history, political aspirations and imaginations. Identify the features that make India a nation.

Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
“In the history of nation-building only the Soviet experiment bears comparison with the Indian. There too, a sense of unity had to be forged between many diverse ethnic groups, religious, linguistic communities and social classes. The scale – geographic as well as demographic – was comparably massive. The raw material the state had to work with was equally unpropitious : a people divided by faith and driven by debt and disease. ”

—Ramachandra Guha

(a) List the commonalities that the author mentions between India and Soviet Union and give one example for each of these from India.

(b) The author does not talk about dissimilarities between the two experiments. Can you mention two dissimilarities ?

(c) In retrospect which of these two experiments worked better and why ?

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