NOTES AND REFERENCES‌

1. Myron Weiner: Politics of Scarcity: Public Pressure and Political Response in India, 1963.

2. H.A. Gani: Muslim Political Issues and National Integration, P. 3.

3. Rasheeduddin Khan: National Integration and Communal Harmony (in National Integration of India, Volume II, Edited by Sinha).

4. Kousar J. Azam: Political Aspects of National Integration, P. 82.

5. B.K. Nehru: The Indira Gandhi Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of Kerala in January, 1988.

6. It was a three-member commission headed by Fazl Ali. Its other two members were K.M. Panikkar and H.N. Kunzru.

7. In 2000, three more new states of Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand were created out the territories of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar respectively.

8. Tamil Nadu Government opposed the three language formula and continued to teach only two languages, that is, English and Tamil in the educational institutions of the state.