Nearly 200 million people live in Uttar Pradesh (the name is Hindi for Northern Province) and, if it were an independent country, it would be the fifth largest in the world, bigger than Brazil and only just behind Indonesia.
Its western districts are fertile and prosperous, while the southern Bundelkhand has suffered serious successive droughts. Low-caste families are a huge electoral bloc, but many live in poverty.
Politics of divide, conquer at play in Indian state split - Sydney Morning Herald
Its western districts are fertile and prosperous, while the southern Bundelkhand has suffered serious successive droughts. Low-caste families are a huge electoral bloc, but many live in poverty.
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But this week UP's firebrand Chief Minister, Kumari Mayawati, has advocated the abolition of her own job, proposing to split the mega-state into four more manageable pieces - Purvanchal, Paschim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Awadh Pradesh - which recognise the claims for autonomy by various ethnic groups.Politics of divide, conquer at play in Indian state split - Sydney Morning Herald
