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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. Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    "Pradesh" refers to a province or territory in various South Asian languages. It derives from the Sanskrit प्रदेश pradeśa, meaning "sub-region" or "sub-country". The word was borrowed into other languages to signify "nation" or "country": Thai: ประเทศ prathet, Lao: ປະເທດ pathet; Khmer: ប្រទេស prâtés

  4. Indian states by most spoken scheduled languages - Wikipedia

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    The following table contains the Indian states and union territories along with the most spoken scheduled languages used in the region. [1] These are based on the 2011 census of India figures except Andhra Pradesh and Telangana , whose statistics are based on the 2001 census of the then unified Andhra Pradesh.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Carnatic Sultanate - Wikipedia

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    Nawab of Carnatic Azim-ud-Daula on the left, signed the Carnatic Treaty ceding tax rights to the British.. The Carnatic Sultanate (Persian: سلطنت دكرناتك; Tamil: ஆற்காடு நவாப்; Urdu: کرناٹک ریاست) also known as Carnatic State or Arcot State was a kingdom in southern India between about 1690 and 1855, ruled by a Muslim nawab under the legal purview ...

  7. States of India by Urdu speakers - Wikipedia

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    [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. Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply ...

  8. Province - Wikipedia

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    The term province has since been adopted by many countries. In some countries with no actual provinces, "the provinces" is a metaphorical term meaning "outside the capital city". While some provinces were produced artificially by colonial powers, others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities.

  9. Puducherry (union territory) - Wikipedia

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    The same act stated that the Tamil language shall be the language to be used for all or any of the official purposes of the Union territory and the same official recognition is given for English. The same act also recognized officially Malayalam and Telugu in the Mahé and Yanam districts respectively.