The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.53

c10.53

The very genesis of our modern linguistic units in their historical setting is one of the most important proofs of these latent and dormant geographic factors, which in a proper political environment led to the present pattern. This process resulted sometimes in the division of larger units (Krishna-Godavary basins)² and at other times in the fusion of contiguous units (Gujarat).³ Let us take these two type-areas. A very interesting example of the former type is the division of the Krishna-Godavary basins into Maharashtra and Andhra, as opposite ends of the valleys. As Spate puts it, ".....the boundary of Maratha State shows a striking accordance with the edge of the Lavas; hence the division of the State (Hyderabad) into Marathawada and Telangana, a rare instance of official recognition of regionalism".⁴