3. The demands for state formation in India have changed their bases from linguistic to backwardness, ethnicity etc. Examine this transformation of the bases for state reorganization.

Approach:

♤ First mention how the demands of linguistic states had been met.

♤ Then mention various aspirations of statehood emerging from larger states in terms of administrative negligence, backwardness, self-assertiveness.

♤ Examine merits and demerits from both the perspectives and conclude suitably.