An act of partition is redrawing India’s political geography more than 60 years after Pakistan was split out of British India. The move this week to carve up India’s most populous state is a reminder that the contours of the world’s largest democracy are a work in progress. Its 28 states are protean enough to divide and subdivide along ethnic, linguistic and social lines to keep India inward-looking for decades to come. Why not 52 states?
巴基斯坦脫離英屬印度60多年後,一場分治的行動正在試圖重新勾畫印度的政治版圖。11月21日在印度北方邦(Uttar Pradesh)邦議會通過了一項提案,計劃將該邦一分爲四。這一拆分的舉動提醒人們,這個世界最大的民主國家的地圖仍未定稿。印度的28個邦都十分多變,完全可以按照族羣、語言和社會階層的界線,分割、再分割,讓印度在未來的幾十年裏仍然只能專注於自身內部事務。爲什麼不乾脆設置52個邦算了?
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