Regionalism in India is rooted in India's diversity of language cultures tribes and religion. Regional sentiments are accommodated by:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Federalism
Option (3) Federalism — Correct. Under federalism, powers are shared between the Union and the states, so regions get their own governments. Regionalism in India is rooted in its diversity of languages, cultures, tribes and religions, and Indian federalism has been a means of accommodating these regional sentiments, for example through the creation of linguistic states.
NCERT (2025-26): “6.2 Regionalism in the Indian Context … Regionalism in India is rooted in India’s diversity of languages, cultures, tribes, and religions. It is also encouraged by the geographical concentration of these identity markers in particular regions, and fuelled by a sense of regional deprivation. Indian federalism has been a means of accommodating these regional sentiments (Bhattacharyya 2005). After Independence, initially the Indian state continued with the BritishIndian arrangement dividing India into large provinces, also called ‘presidencies’. (Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta were the three major presidencies; incidentally, all three cities after which the presidencies were named have changed their names recently). These were large multi-ethnic and multilingual provincial states constituting the major political-administrative units of a semi-federal state called the Union of India. Soon after the adoption of the Constitution, all these units of the colonial era had to be reorganised into ethno-linguistic States within the Indian union in response to strong popular agitations.…” |