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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    221 : Andhra Pradesh: Political Dynamics of Regionalism, Formation of New States in India

    K C Suri, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India

    22 January 2016

    Delving deeply into the dynamic factors that have led to the creation of language-based sub-national States in India, the author explains the political and psychological basis of the recent bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, a composite State for the Telugu linguistic group, in a context in which the two new entities continue to be dominated by people speaking the same language.