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Sub: Response to : The Statesman News Service 9 March 2010 : Rudy to move Private Member Bill on Gorkhaland .
Having read the statement in The Statesman News Service 9 March 2010 declaring Mr. Rudy would be moving a Private Member Bill on the Gorkhaland issue on 13 March 2010 seems a positive step forward as till date no incidental effect has been realized, except the interim arrangement which implication is still undercover. That Mr. Rudy has undertaken to raise the issue of Gorkhaland in the Rajya Sabha, where the Sixth Schedule Bill is also pending introduction, is a positive move ahead relevant to the issue. The Darjeeling hill people should certainly be grateful for Mr. Rudy’s cooperation, indeed a great gesture on Mr. Rudy part to put on rail the long time aspirations to achieve which the people have already suffered great loss in time, material and most of all loss of lives during the last GNLF political agitation.
Some of you might remember my friend Aftyero… the person… who banned the booze and the bikes and the holding of the hands and the protesting and everything else that was detrimental to him and his agenda… and true to his namesake Aftyero… he is being difficult once again…
In the book titled Making of the Indian Union: Merger of Princely States and Excluded Areas edited by Sajal Nag, Tejimala Gurung, Abhijit Choudhury; published 2007, in the very introduction mentions, “Within the British India, there were three distinct categories- British India, Princely India and Tribal India distinguished as Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas”. He further goes on to write ‘…process of integration was a very important aspect of the making of India as a nation state, the available literature on the above subject is scanty’ he however feels V.P.Menon’s The Integration of Indian States (Hyderabad 1956, reprint 1985) is the only complete and exhaustive account. Besides which he feels Vanaja Rangaswami’s The Story of Integration: A New Interpretation, Delhi 1981, is perhaps one of the few scholarly works on the subject subsequently.More Articles...
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