More provinces? Let the people decide

More provinces? Let the people decide

The evolution of provincial alteration in British India began with the Regulating Act of 1773, after which the colonial state repeatedly altered India for its own purposes. The process culminated in the Government of India Act, 1935, which introduced provincial autonomy and proposed the creation of a Federation of India — and, in turn, shaped the constitutions of both India and Pakistan. In 1947, India and Pakistan inherited provinces which had been created, altered, sub-divided and named for...

By [email protected] (Jawad Sohrab Malik)