Basu and Becker in Assam

It is not for nothing that India is a collection of disparate states. Each state of the Union has its own enduring disorder. Bihar was, for long, the exemplar of societal anomie; Uttar Pradesh is home to caste combination and permutations that can only be called kaleidoscopic—its political results are debilitating. Jammu and Kashmir is in the grip of a senseless ideology of secession. These examples can be multiplied 28 times.

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