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Why southern India is rallying around a battle over population and power
A looming delimitation exercise is focusing minds on how the south might end up with less say in federal politics despite being the country’s growth engine.
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India’s southern states are notable for being much better performers on social development indices, compared with its big population centres of the north.
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Like China’s coastal provinces, India’s booming southern states – all save one of which have direct access to the sea – are major growth drivers of the world’s most populous nation, which is set to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, just behind the US and China.
All the southern states are highly globalised. Tamil Nadu, for instance, is a major manufacturing and export centre for Hyundai. Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, which are state capitals of Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, respectively, are technology hubs.
