Re: Anti North Indian sentiments growing in India
North India -
Most of the Hindi speaking states are called BIMARU (Sick) - These include Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajastan and Uttar Pradesh. They have now create three new states Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Uttarachal.
Punjab, HP, Haryana and Kashmir are also part of North India
South India is usually 4 states - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
West India - Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa
East - West Bengal, Orissa
NE - 7 states.
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I am not sure whether Division of India on linguistic basis was a good idea.
http://www.chennaionline.com/Editorial/Feb08/02edt04.asp
One wonders if dividing India into linguistic States was a correct move. It has generated more problems than it has solved. We should have had straight lines to mark our different States. Each State will have several languages, religions,castes etc. Perhaps that would have given us a better Indianness. Today, we stand divided on every trivial issue.
Coming back to Mumbai, It has Hindus (68%), Muslims (17%), Christians (4%) and Jains (4%). Parsis, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jews form the rest. Ethnically, 42 percent of Mumbai’s population are Maharashtrians, 18 per cent Gujarathis, 21 per cent North Indians, three per cent Tamils, 3 per cent Sindhis and five per cent Kannadigas
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