All India picture of uneven/unequal development has posed problems for any serious researcher of Indian society. Many of the states have been proverbially labelled as BIMARU-states by Economists-Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh. Even a state which has been labelled as being "relatively advanced" consists of subregions/pockets which not only been but persists to be backward as of now. At the time of linguistic organization of the states ...
