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  2. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies

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    Prior to independence, the majority of the territory now comprising Uttar Pradesh was administered by the British under various names—the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the United Provinces of British India, and simply United Provinces. The latter name was retained at independence. In 1950, the commonly used initials U.P. were preserved ...

  3. Administrative divisions of India - Wikipedia

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    The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi-speaking states but to talukas of ...

  4. States of India by Urdu speakers - Wikipedia

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    As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in the Republic of India were 62,772,631. [1] [2] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindustani language, but the literary-register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.

  5. Telangana - Wikipedia

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    Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and the primary official language of the state while Urdu is the second official language. The economy of Telangana is the ninth-largest in India, with a gross state domestic product (GSDP) of ₹ 16.502 trillion (US$190 billion) and has a GSDP per capita of ₹ 390,564 ...

  6. States of India by Tamil speakers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of states and territories of India by number of people for whom Tamil is their mother tongue (first language). State/territory 1981 census [ a ] [ b ]

  7. Puducherry (union territory) - Wikipedia

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    Puducherry (/ ˌ p ʊ d ʊ ˈ tʃ ɛr i /; Tamil: [puðut͡ːʃeːɾi]), also known as Pondicherry (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛr i /; Tamil: [paːɳɖit͡ːʃeːɾi]), is a union territory of India, consisting of four small geographically unconnected districts.

  8. Zamin Ali - Wikipedia

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    Zamin headed the Urdu survey committee and produced the report, Urdu Zaban-o-Adab [14].This book summarizes Urdu linguistics and is considered more comprehensive than Sir George Greison's 'Linguistic Survey of India'. [15] Mahatma Gandhi visited Allahabad University on 17th November, 1928 and praised the work being done by Zamin and the Academy ...

  9. Tamil Nadu - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Nadu (/ ˌ t æ m ɪ l ˈ n ɑː d uː /; Tamil: [ˈtamiɻ ˈnaːɽɯ] ⓘ, abbr. TN) is the southernmost state of India.The tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, who speak the Tamil language—the state's official language and one of the longest surviving classical languages of the world.