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CHAPTER 6: REGIONAL DISCONTENT AND ITS SOLUTION

 

A. Basis of RegionalismAspiring to or making special efforts to develop one's state, to remove poverty, implementing social justice is not branded as regionalism. However, if any state asserting its pride & interests above the national interest and against the nation in a hostile manner, then that can be dubbed as regionalism.Sons of Soil Doctrine:B. Issue of J & K, Punjab1. Issue of J & KRoot – Cause of the problem:2. Punjab IssueRoad to Peace:C. Problems with North-East RegionI. Demands for autonomy:II. Secessionist Movements:1. Mizoram:2. Nagaland3. Movements against outsiders4. Accommodation of Regional Aspirations and National Integration: