Nationalism vs. Regionalism

Rationale

• Ideology: The efforts of the national government to impose a particular ideology, language or cultural pattern on all people and groups compelled the regionalism movements to crop up. For example, imposition of Hindi language.
• Neglect: Continuous neglect of an area or region by the ruling parties and concentration of administrative and political power has given rise to demand for decentralization of authority and bifurcate of unilingual states.
• Apprehension of Ethnic People: Apprehension the part of linguistic ethnic or religious minorities in view of uniform system of administration and policies. Many of these groups dominate in specific region became suspicious ....