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02/06/2021 1:50 pm
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After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on Uguistic times?
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02/06/2021 1:50 pm
- Way back in the 1920s, the Indian National Congress, in the beginning, had promised that after independence, each major linguistic group would have its own province.
- After independence, the Congress did not take any steps to honour this promise.
- India had been divided on the basis of religion: despite the wishes and efforts of Mahatma Gandhi, freedom had come not to one nation but to two.
- As a result of the partition of India, more than ten lakh people had been killed in riots between Hindus and Muslims.
- The country could not afford further divisions on the basis of language.
- Both Prime Minister Nehru and Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Patel were against the creation of states on the basis of languages.