The struggle for a separate state of ‘Gorkhaland’ in the Darjeeling hills is several decades old. But an emerging class division within the movement is characteristic of major tensions in Indian regional politics today.
Ever since the “news broke” that all references to Indian Union’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru had been ommitted in the Class VIII textbooks of the Rajasthan state board curriculum, there has been a huge hue and cry.
Emerging class divisions in the Gorkhaland Movement
The struggle for a separate state of ‘Gorkhaland’ in the Darjeeling hills is several decades old. But an emerging class division within the movement is characteristic of major tensions in Indian regional politics today.
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