why has india been divided into states and union territories
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Initially, it was intended to preserve cultural identities, tradition and heritage in tune with their unique Historical evolution, much like the Council of Princes (since replaced with the Rajya Sabha) was intended to preserve the continuity of heritage, culture and identities. For Example, Goa was a Portuguese Colony as Pondicherry was a French Colony. But this logic was not extended to formerly well governed Kingdoms such as Mysore which were merged with other cultural entities such as parts of British Bombay Presidency, British Madras Presidency, the Ceded (Munro) Districts and Nizam’s Hyderabad to come up with Karrinayithikka, a State with almost as many civil wars in progress as Districts and more cultural diversity than districts.
However, subsequent machinations such as Social Engineering, confiscation of the religious freedoms, temples, treasure, educational institutions, land, and commonwealth of the Brahmana led Savarna Arya (1959), as well as the forest foraging and thorough fare rights of the Tribals as the Natural Conservators of the Forests (1959), the re writing of History, Constitution and Laws to conform to the political dogmas* unleashed by the British to divide to rule as well as the reality that culture, heritage and traditions change every hundred Kilometers in India and from Temple to Temple have turned these grandiose plans into travesty.
Today, in my opinion, it is best to devolve all the Constitutional authority vested in a “State” to each district, and major City of the Union, and create groupings of the Resultant States into Administrative “Regions” as an intermediate tier for Juridical, Central Banking and development co-ordination purposes.
* After the 1857 mutiny, the British put together their plan to subjugate India and began the implementation from 1921; Confiscation of Savarna Commonwealth (Temples, treasure etc) in 1923 and expulsion of the Brahmanas from the the courts and de recognizing their judicial authority. Distribution of agricultural lands on which guru kulas and temples were dependent to the ryots, Commencement of Daalit Movement (Phule, Ambedkar etc) in the West. Commencement of Draavid movement (EVR Naiker etc) in the South. Subversion of the Sikhs through Kartar and Karag (Sialkot) to commence the Akali movement in the North. Self emasculating pacifism and worship of alien religions and ideologies such as communism (Gandhi, Nehru) etc etc. This and the pampering of the Deen e Kitabi (Christians and Moslems) was enshrined in the Indian Constitution condemning India to a perpetual low intensity civil war.