India gets a new state: Telangana

[Tender Branson]

Telangana is India’s 29th state

Amid celebrations and dancing on the streets, the southern state of Andhra Pradesh formally split into two Monday, with the northern, landlocked part breaking off to become Telegana — India’s 29th state.

Despite months of widespread protests against the decision, thousands took to the streets to celebrate the birth of India’s newest state in Hyderabad, which will act as a joint capital of the two states for the next decade. This is to allow enough time for Andhra Pradesh to develop a new capital city. Telangana will retain Hyderabad, one of India’s information-technology cities, as its capital – another reason for opposition over the split.

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The last time new states were formed in India was in 2000 when Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand was created out of Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand broke off from Bihar.

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/06/02/telangana-is-indias-29th-state

[Simfan34]

Telangana is India’s 29th state

Amid celebrations and dancing on the streets, the southern state of Andhra Pradesh formally split into two Monday, with the northern, landlocked part breaking off to become Telegana — India’s 29th state.

Despite months of widespread protests against the decision, thousands took to the streets to celebrate the birth of India’s newest state in Hyderabad, which will act as a joint capital of the two states for the next decade. This is to allow enough time for Andhra Pradesh to develop a new capital city. Telangana will retain Hyderabad, one of India’s information-technology cities, as its capital – another reason for opposition over the split.

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The last time new states were formed in India was in 2000 when Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand was created out of Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand broke off from Bihar.

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/06/02/telangana-is-indias-29th-state

Hyderabad rises again!

[Hatman 🍁]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Yeah, it'd be nice if they could find an arrangement in which no State has more than 100M inhabitants.

[GMantis]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Uttar Pradesh doesn't have a culturally distinct region that contributes a disproportionaly significant part of state income while being neglected by the state government.

[jaichind]

Hyderabad will actually be shared by AP and Telangana as a joint capital over the next 10 years.  Most people I know from Hyderabad are actually from Coastal AP and does not really identify with Telangana. 

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Yeah, it'd be nice if they could find an arrangement in which no State has more than 100M inhabitants.

This would also entail splitting Maharashtra, and Bihar again depending on how strict the criterion was.

[Hatman 🍁]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Uttar Pradesh doesn't have a culturally distinct region that contributes a disproportionaly significant part of state income while being neglected by the state government.

Except you know, for the fact that it has more people than almost every single country in the world.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Yeah, it'd be nice if they could find an arrangement in which no State has more than 100M inhabitants.

This would also entail splitting Maharashtra, and Bihar again depending on how strict the criterion was.

That's what I meant, yes.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Yeah, it'd be nice if they could find an arrangement in which no State has more than 100M inhabitants.

This would also entail splitting Maharashtra, and Bihar again depending on how strict the criterion was.

That's what I meant, yes.

Or else just split Uttar Pradesh and walk the Karnataka-Maharashtra and Jharkhand-Bihar borders north a little bit, but that stops making demographic sense after a while.

[Zuza]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Yeah, it'd be nice if they could find an arrangement in which no State has more than 100M inhabitants.

This would also entail splitting Maharashtra, and Bihar again depending on how strict the criterion was.

That's what I meant, yes.

Or else just split Uttar Pradesh and walk the Karnataka-Maharashtra and Jharkhand-Bihar borders north a little bit, but that stops making demographic sense after a while.

I'm not sure about Bihar-Jharkhand border (in both states Hindi is the main spoken language), but it's absolutely unreasonable to move border between Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and Kannada-speaking Karnataka just to distribute population between them more equally. Especially considering that Maharashtra already claims Marathi-speaking part of Karnataka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgaum_border_dispute.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Yeah, it'd be nice if they could find an arrangement in which no State has more than 100M inhabitants.

This would also entail splitting Maharashtra, and Bihar again depending on how strict the criterion was.

That's what I meant, yes.

Or else just split Uttar Pradesh and walk the Karnataka-Maharashtra and Jharkhand-Bihar borders north a little bit, but that stops making demographic sense after a while.

I'm not sure about Bihar-Jharkhand border (in both states Hindi is the main spoken language), but it's absolutely unreasonable to move border between Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and Kannada-speaking Karnataka just to distribute population between them more equally. Especially considering that Maharashtra already claims Marathi-speaking part of Karnataka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgaum_border_dispute.

'A while' apparently being a very short while in the case of those states, then. Thank you for pointing this out.

[Sbane]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

Uttar Pradesh doesn't have a culturally distinct region that contributes a disproportionaly significant part of state income while being neglected by the state government.

Except you know, for the fact that it has more people than almost every single country in the world.

How would you split the state though? Gmantis is absolutely correct that there is no obvious reason to split Uttar Pradesh.

[Simfan34]

Awadh, and then on from there. Already, you'd have split it into three.

[Sbane]

Awadh, and then on from there. Already, you'd have split it into three.

You could do that but there is still no reason to do it beyond making it easier to govern. Mind you, that is not a bad reason to split the state, though I fear it is ungovernable because the people vote for sh**t politicians all across the state.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

200 million is a lot of people, but at least it's not the majority of the country's population like Punjab, Pakistan. The rest of the top 20 country subdivisions are in India and Pakistan. England is 21st.

[President Tyrion]

Uttar Pradesh needs to split into several states before any other state.

200 million is a lot of people, but at least it's not the majority of the country's population like Punjab, Pakistan. The rest of the top 20 country subdivisions are in India and Pakistan. England is 21st.

And China, of course.