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States and union territories of India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India is a federal union of states[1] comprising twenty-nine states and seven union territories. The states and union territories are further subdivided
into districts and so on.[1]
Contents
1 List of states and territories
2 Responsibilities and authorities
3 History
3.1 Pre-1956
3.2 Post-1956
3.3 Current Proposals
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
List of states and territories
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States
Map Name
ISO
3166-2
code[2]
Date of
formation Population
Area
(km2)
Official
language(s)
Administrative
capital
Largest city
(if not the
capital)
Population
density
Literacy
Rate (%)
% of total
population
that is
urban
1 Andhra
Pradesh
AP 1 November
1956
49,665,533 160,205 Telugu HyderabadNote 1 Visakhapatnam 308 67.41%[3] N/A
2 Arunachal
Pradesh
AR 20 February
1987
1,382,611 83,743 English Itanagar 17 66.95 20.8
3 Assam AS
15 August
1947 31,169,272 78,550
Assamese;
Regional:
Bodo, Bengali
Dispur Guwahati 397 73.18 12.9
4 Bihar BR 1 April 1936 103,804,637 99,200
Hindi,
Magadhi,
Maithili, Urdu
Patna 1,102 63.82 10.5
5 Chhattisgarh CT 1 November
2000
25,540,196 135,194 Chattisgarhi,
Hindi
Raipur 189 71.04 20.1
6 Goa GA 30 May
1987
1,457,723 3,702 Konkani Panaji 394 87.40 62.2
7 Gujarat GJ 1 May 1960 60,383,628 196,024 Gujarati Gandhinagar Ahmedabad 308 79.31 37.4
8 Haryana HR
1 November
1966 25,353,081 44,212
Hindi,
Haryanvi
(regional)
Chandigarh
(shared, Union Territory) Faridabad 573 76.64 28.9
9 Himachal
Pradesh
HP 25 January
1971
6,856,509 55,673 Hindi, Pahari
(regional)
Shimla 123 83.78 9.8
10
Jammu and
Kashmir JK
26 October
1947 12,548,926 222,236
Dogri,
Kashmiri,
Ladakhi,
Urdu[4]
Srinagar (summer)
Jammu (winter) 124 68.74 24.8
11 Jharkhand JH
15
November
2000
32,966,238 74,677 Hindi Ranchi Jamshedpur 414 67.63 22.2
12 Karnataka KA 1 November
1956
61,130,704 191,791 Kannada Bangalore 319 75.60 34.0
13 Kerala KL 1 November
1956
33,387,677 38,863 Malayalam Thiruvananthapuram 859 93.91 26.0
14 Madhya
Pradesh
MP 1 November
1956
72,597,565 308,252 Hindi Bhopal Indore 236 70.63 26.5
15 Maharashtra MH 1 May 1960 112,372,972 307,713 Marathi Mumbai 365 82.91 42.4
16 Manipur MN 21 January
1972
2,721,756 22,347 Manipuri Imphal 122 79.85 25.1
17 Meghalaya ML
21 January
1972 2,964,007 22,720
English, Garo,
Hindi, Khasi,
Pnar,
Shillong 132 75.48 19.6
18 Mizoram MZ 20 February
1987
1,091,014 21,081 Mizo Aizawl 52 91.58 49.6
19 Nagaland NL 1 December
1963
1,980,602 16,579 English Kohima Dimapur 119 80.11 17.2
20 Odisha[5]
(Orissa)
OR 1 April 1936 41,947,358 155,820 Oriya Bhubaneswar 269 73.45 15.0
21 Punjab PB 1 November
1966
27,704,236 50,362 Punjabi Chandigarh
(shared, Union Territory)
Ludhiana 550 76.68 33.9
22 Rajasthan RJ 1 November
1956
68,621,012 342,269 Hindi,
Rajasthani
Jaipur 201 67.06 23.4
23 Sikkim SK
16 May
1975 607,688 7,096
Nepali, Bhutia,
Gurung,
Lepcha,
Limbu,
Manggar,
Newari,
Sherpa,
Sunwar,
Tamang
Gangtok 86 82.20 11.1
24 Tamil Nadu TN 26 January
1950
72,138,958 130,058 Tamil Chennai 480 80.33 44.0
25 Telangana TS — 2 June 2014
35,193,978
[6] 114,840 Telugu, Urdu HyderabadNote 1 307 [6] N/A N/A TS 26 Tripura TS
21
January
1972
3,671,032
27 Uttar
Pradesh
UP 26 January
1950
199,581,477 243,286 Hindi, Urdu[7] Lucknow 828 69.72 20.8
28 Uttarakhand UK 9 November
2000
10,116,752 53,566 Hindi, Sanskrit Dehradun (interim) 189 79.63 25.7
29 West Bengal WB 1 November
1956
91,347,736 88,752 Bengali,
English
Kolkata 1,029 77.08 28.0
^Note 1 Andhra Pradesh has been split into two states on 2 June 2014, Telangana and a residual Andhra Pradesh.[8][9][10] Hyderabad is to be the joint capital for both states for ten years while new
capital for the residual Andhra Pradesh state are being decided.[11]
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Hyderabad state in 1909
Administrative division of India in 1951
Union Territories
Map Name
ISO 3166-2
code[2] Population Official
language Capital Population
density
Literacy
Rate(%)
Percentage of Urban Population to total
Population
A Andaman and Nicobar
Islands
AN 379,944 English, Hindi Port Blair 46 86.27 32.6
B Chandigarh CH 1,054,686 English, Hindi, Punjabi Chandigarh 9,252 86.43 89.8
C Dadra and Nagar Haveli DN 342,853 English, Gujarati, Hindi,
Marathi
Silvassa 698 77.65 22.9
D Daman and Diu DD 242,911 English, Gujarati, Hindi,
Marathi
Daman 2169 87.07 36.2
E Lakshadweep LD 64,429 English, Malayalam Kavaratti 2013 92.28 44.5
F National Capital Territory of
Delhi
DL 16,753,235 English, Hindi, Punjabi,
Urdu
Delhi 11,297 86.34 93.2
G Puducherry PY 1,244,464
French and Tamil;
Regional:
Telugu and Malayalam
Pondicherry 2,598 86.55 66.6
Responsibilities and authorities
The Constitution of India distributes the sovereign powers exercisable with respect to the territory of any State between the Union and that State. "Article 73 broadly stated, provides that the executive
power of the Union shall extend to the matters with respect to which Parliament has power to make laws. Article 162 similarly provides that the executive power of a State shall extend to the matters with
respect to which the Legislature of a State has power to make laws. The Supreme Court has reiterated this position when it ruled in the Ramanaiah case that the executive power of the Union or of the
State broadly speaking, is coextensive and coterminous with its respective legislative power." (italics in original)[12]
History
Pre-1956
The Indian Subcontinent has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each instituting their own policies of
administrative division in the region.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] During the British Raj, the original administrative structure was mostly
kept, and India was divided into provinces that were directly governed by the British and princely states which were nominally controlled by a
local prince or raja loyal to the British Empire, who held de facto sovereignty (suzerainty) over the princely states.
Post-1956
Several new states and union territories have been created out of existing states since 1956. Bombay State was split into the linguistic states
of Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960[23] by the Bombay Reorganisation Act. Nagaland was made a state on 1 December 1963.[24] The
Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the Punjab along linguistic lines, creating a new Hindi-speaking state of Haryana on 1
November,[25] transferring the northern districts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh, and designating Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab
and Haryana, a union territory.[26]
Statehood was conferred upon Himachal Pradesh[27] on 25 January 1971, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura[28] on 21 January 1972 the
Kingdom of Sikkim joined the Indian Union as a state on 26 April 1975.[29] In 1987, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram became states on 20
February, followed by Goa on 30 May, while Goa's northern exclaves of Daman and Diu became a separate union territory.[30]
In 2000 three new states were created; Chhattisgarh (1 November 2000) was created out of eastern Madhya Pradesh,[31] Uttaranchal (9
November 2000), which was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007,[32] was created out of the Hilly regions of northwest Uttar Pradesh,[33] and
Jharkhand (15 November 2000) was created out of the southern districts of Bihar.[34]
In 2014, the new state of Telangana was carved out from the North-Western regions of the state of Andhra Pradesh. The city of Hyderabad
became the joint capital of the two states.
Current Proposals
In November 2011 Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, proposed dividing it into four states, Avadh Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Paschim
Pradesh, and Purvanchal. On 21 November this movement was backed through a "voice vote" by the state assembly, despite criticism from
the opposition and claims that the move was made to gain support for the next state election. It must gain the approval of the federal
government, however this may be difficult due to the opposition to the creation of Telangana.[35]
See also
Adjectivals and demonyms for states and territories of India
List of proposed states and territories of India
Autonomous regions of India
Emblems of Indian States
ISO 3166-2:IN
List of states and union territories of India by population
List of states in India by past population
Subdivisions of India
References
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States and union territories of India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India is a federal union of states[1] comprising twenty-nine states and seven union territories. The states and union territories are further subdivided
into districts and so on.[1]
Contents
1 List of states and territories
2 Responsibilities and authorities
3 History
3.1 Pre-1956
3.2 Post-1956
3.3 Current Proposals
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
List of states and territories
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States
Map Name
ISO
3166-2
code[2]
Date of
formation Population
Area
(km2)
Official
language(s)
Administrative
capital
Largest city
(if not the
capital)
Population
density
Literacy
Rate (%)
% of total
population
that is
urban
1 Andhra
Pradesh
AP 1 November
1956
49,665,533 160,205 Telugu HyderabadNote 1 Visakhapatnam 308 67.41%[3] N/A
2 Arunachal
Pradesh
AR 20 February
1987
1,382,611 83,743 English Itanagar 17 66.95 20.8
3 Assam AS
15 August
1947 31,169,272 78,550
Assamese;
Regional:
Bodo, Bengali
Dispur Guwahati 397 73.18 12.9
4 Bihar BR 1 April 1936 103,804,637 99,200
Hindi,
Magadhi,
Maithili, Urdu
Patna 1,102 63.82 10.5
5 Chhattisgarh CT 1 November
2000
25,540,196 135,194 Chattisgarhi,
Hindi
Raipur 189 71.04 20.1
6 Goa GA 30 May
1987
1,457,723 3,702 Konkani Panaji 394 87.40 62.2
7 Gujarat GJ 1 May 1960 60,383,628 196,024 Gujarati Gandhinagar Ahmedabad 308 79.31 37.4
8 Haryana HR
1 November
1966 25,353,081 44,212
Hindi,
Haryanvi
(regional)
Chandigarh
(shared, Union Territory) Faridabad 573 76.64 28.9
9 Himachal
Pradesh
HP 25 January
1971
6,856,509 55,673 Hindi, Pahari
(regional)
Shimla 123 83.78 9.8
10
Jammu and
Kashmir JK
26 October
1947 12,548,926 222,236
Dogri,
Kashmiri,
Ladakhi,
Urdu[4]
Srinagar (summer)
Jammu (winter) 124 68.74 24.8
11 Jharkhand JH
15
November
2000
32,966,238 74,677 Hindi Ranchi Jamshedpur 414 67.63 22.2
12 Karnataka KA 1 November
1956
61,130,704 191,791 Kannada Bangalore 319 75.60 34.0
13 Kerala KL 1 November
1956
33,387,677 38,863 Malayalam Thiruvananthapuram 859 93.91 26.0
14 Madhya
Pradesh
MP 1 November
1956
72,597,565 308,252 Hindi Bhopal Indore 236 70.63 26.5
15 Maharashtra MH 1 May 1960 112,372,972 307,713 Marathi Mumbai 365 82.91 42.4
16 Manipur MN 21 January
1972
2,721,756 22,347 Manipuri Imphal 122 79.85 25.1
17 Meghalaya ML
21 January
1972 2,964,007 22,720
English, Garo,
Hindi, Khasi,
Pnar,
Shillong 132 75.48 19.6
18 Mizoram MZ 20 February
1987
1,091,014 21,081 Mizo Aizawl 52 91.58 49.6
19 Nagaland NL 1 December
1963
1,980,602 16,579 English Kohima Dimapur 119 80.11 17.2
20 Odisha[5]
(Orissa)
OR 1 April 1936 41,947,358 155,820 Oriya Bhubaneswar 269 73.45 15.0
21 Punjab PB 1 November
1966
27,704,236 50,362 Punjabi Chandigarh
(shared, Union Territory)
Ludhiana 550 76.68 33.9
22 Rajasthan RJ 1 November
1956
68,621,012 342,269 Hindi,
Rajasthani
Jaipur 201 67.06 23.4
23 Sikkim SK
16 May
1975 607,688 7,096
Nepali, Bhutia,
Gurung,
Lepcha,
Limbu,
Manggar,
Newari,
Sherpa,
Sunwar,
Tamang
Gangtok 86 82.20 11.1
24 Tamil Nadu TN 26 January
1950
72,138,958 130,058 Tamil Chennai 480 80.33 44.0
25 Telangana TS — 2 June 2014
35,193,978
[6] 114,840 Telugu, Urdu HyderabadNote 1 307 [6] N/A N/A TS 26 Tripura TS
21
January
1972
3,671,032
27 Uttar
Pradesh
UP 26 January
1950
199,581,477 243,286 Hindi, Urdu[7] Lucknow 828 69.72 20.8
28 Uttarakhand UK 9 November
2000
10,116,752 53,566 Hindi, Sanskrit Dehradun (interim) 189 79.63 25.7
29 West Bengal WB 1 November
1956
91,347,736 88,752 Bengali,
English
Kolkata 1,029 77.08 28.0
^Note 1 Andhra Pradesh has been split into two states on 2 June 2014, Telangana and a residual Andhra Pradesh.[8][9][10] Hyderabad is to be the joint capital for both states for ten years while new
capital for the residual Andhra Pradesh state are being decided.[11]
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Hyderabad state in 1909
Administrative division of India in 1951
Union Territories
Map Name
ISO 3166-2
code[2] Population Official
language Capital Population
density
Literacy
Rate(%)
Percentage of Urban Population to total
Population
A Andaman and Nicobar
Islands
AN 379,944 English, Hindi Port Blair 46 86.27 32.6
B Chandigarh CH 1,054,686 English, Hindi, Punjabi Chandigarh 9,252 86.43 89.8
C Dadra and Nagar Haveli DN 342,853 English, Gujarati, Hindi,
Marathi
Silvassa 698 77.65 22.9
D Daman and Diu DD 242,911 English, Gujarati, Hindi,
Marathi
Daman 2169 87.07 36.2
E Lakshadweep LD 64,429 English, Malayalam Kavaratti 2013 92.28 44.5
F National Capital Territory of
Delhi
DL 16,753,235 English, Hindi, Punjabi,
Urdu
Delhi 11,297 86.34 93.2
G Puducherry PY 1,244,464
French and Tamil;
Regional:
Telugu and Malayalam
Pondicherry 2,598 86.55 66.6
Responsibilities and authorities
The Constitution of India distributes the sovereign powers exercisable with respect to the territory of any State between the Union and that State. "Article 73 broadly stated, provides that the executive
power of the Union shall extend to the matters with respect to which Parliament has power to make laws. Article 162 similarly provides that the executive power of a State shall extend to the matters with
respect to which the Legislature of a State has power to make laws. The Supreme Court has reiterated this position when it ruled in the Ramanaiah case that the executive power of the Union or of the
State broadly speaking, is coextensive and coterminous with its respective legislative power." (italics in original)[12]
History
Pre-1956
The Indian Subcontinent has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each instituting their own policies of
administrative division in the region.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] During the British Raj, the original administrative structure was mostly
kept, and India was divided into provinces that were directly governed by the British and princely states which were nominally controlled by a
local prince or raja loyal to the British Empire, who held de facto sovereignty (suzerainty) over the princely states.
Post-1956
Several new states and union territories have been created out of existing states since 1956. Bombay State was split into the linguistic states
of Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960[23] by the Bombay Reorganisation Act. Nagaland was made a state on 1 December 1963.[24] The
Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the Punjab along linguistic lines, creating a new Hindi-speaking state of Haryana on 1
November,[25] transferring the northern districts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh, and designating Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab
and Haryana, a union territory.[26]
Statehood was conferred upon Himachal Pradesh[27] on 25 January 1971, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura[28] on 21 January 1972 the
Kingdom of Sikkim joined the Indian Union as a state on 26 April 1975.[29] In 1987, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram became states on 20
February, followed by Goa on 30 May, while Goa's northern exclaves of Daman and Diu became a separate union territory.[30]
In 2000 three new states were created; Chhattisgarh (1 November 2000) was created out of eastern Madhya Pradesh,[31] Uttaranchal (9
November 2000), which was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007,[32] was created out of the Hilly regions of northwest Uttar Pradesh,[33] and
Jharkhand (15 November 2000) was created out of the southern districts of Bihar.[34]
In 2014, the new state of Telangana was carved out from the North-Western regions of the state of Andhra Pradesh. The city of Hyderabad
became the joint capital of the two states.
Current Proposals
In November 2011 Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, proposed dividing it into four states, Avadh Pradesh, Bundelkhand, Paschim
Pradesh, and Purvanchal. On 21 November this movement was backed through a "voice vote" by the state assembly, despite criticism from
the opposition and claims that the move was made to gain support for the next state election. It must gain the approval of the federal
government, however this may be difficult due to the opposition to the creation of Telangana.[35]
See also
Adjectivals and demonyms for states and territories of India
List of proposed states and territories of India
Autonomous regions of India
Emblems of Indian States
ISO 3166-2:IN
List of states and union territories of India by population
List of states in India by past population
Subdivisions of India
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