In this inaugural episode of Turning the Page, a show featuring interviews with authors, Times Now’s Senior News Editor Siddhartha Talya speaks to Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan about his book ‘The Origin Story of India’s States’.
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India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. This is Article 1 of the Indian Constitution. How did these states evolve, and how is it that the union of India now includes 28 of them? What are our eight Union Territories and what is the nature of their relationship with the central government? The Indian National Congress, prior to Independence, was in favour of linguistic provinces, but this view changed after Partition. However, India’s internal boundaries, due to a combination of circumstances, came to be drawn and redrawn over time. How did this process unfold?
Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan chronicles this and more in his book ‘The Origin Story of India’s States’ (Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd). Times Now’s Senior News Editor Siddhartha Talya interviewed him in the inaugural episode of ‘Turning the Page’, a show featuring interviews with authors. Click on the video to tune into the interview.