A Japanese scientist made a research on cockroaches. I visited his laboratory where he kept cockroaches of various countries in different jars. The country’s name is written on each jar. To my surprise, I found that all the jars were closed with lid except that of Indian cockroaches.

    I asked him the reason. He said, “I need not close it because if one cockroach moves to come out, all the other cockroaches would pull its leg down!” This is only a joke and we should not give credential to it. Let us look at how the partitioning of Indian States came into force.

     Earlier in 1920, the members of the Indian National Congress agreed on formation of states on the basis of language.

After independence:

    After independence, the Congress led Government, however, felt that the linguistic division would pose a problem to unity of our country. So on 17.6.1948, they constituted....

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