How States and Union Territories in India got their name?

[Manindra]

Uttarakhand was the name given by the people of northern part of UP that comprised the areas of Garhwal and Kumaon hills. The two neighbouring hill areas demanded a separate state and naming it a movement for garhwal state or kumaon state would not have united the hill people. Almost all the organizations that supported a separate state were agreeable on the name uttarakhand. BJP too supported the creation of new states of Jharkhand and Uttarakhand but they preferred to call it Vananchal and Uttaranchal. It was during their regime that the new states were created and the govt. issued notification in the names of Jharkhand and Uttaranchal. However, people & the organizations that fought for the separate state in the name of Uttarakhand could not relate much with the new term Uttaranchal and demanded the change of name which, if i am not mistaken, the congress govt. readily obliged.

When Uttarakhand movement on peak there was famous slogan from local people
'Khorba-Khorsa (Wild edible plat type) khaibo, Uttarakhand Banaibo'
BJP named it 'Uttaranchal' due to movement was getting slowed at that time & BJP does not want to share their credit to people who lead that movement.

 

[Razia Sultana]

@utraash @QARAMATIANS
I am a UPite but left to settle in maharashtra before the state was divided. I must say both of you are right in your own sense. Uttarakhand agitation was mainly by hill people and the people from plains or terai region related themselves more with the rest of UP and did not take part in Uttarakhand movement. However, when the new state was created some plain areas were also made part of it. Roorki is one such area. I have met many people from Roorki who are unhappy about the way they are treated by hill people and they said they feel suffocated. However, my personal experience with Kumaoni and Garhwali people has always been very friendly and affectionate and I still have many such friends and its very difficult for me to believe what people of Roorki and other plain areas of Uttarakhand told me. may be one off experiences have been exaggerated or could it really be true?

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

@Akheilos @Shamain @Hiptullha @salarsikander @DESERT FIGHTER @Irfan Baloch @Hyperion

Guys could you please shed more light on when UN asked Pakistan to vacate Azad Kashmir and hand it to India before plebiscite could be held in Indian Occupied Kashmir?

Lmao .. Do you believe these pathological liars?

 

[livingdead]

anchal mean 'area' right? not mountain..

 

[Razia Sultana]

Uttar Pradesh – Uttar Pradesh means ‘Northern Province’.

[/USER]

Uttar Pradesh literally means Northern Province but it was never known by that name. In fact during the British period it was known as the United Provinces of Agra and Awadh. After independence it was simply changed to Uttar pradesh. I dont know how and why.

 

[Blue_Eyes]

That's not true buddy.... We are not I can bet on this ..... You are the first person ever in my life claiming this however I have very large friend circle who reside in UK but belongs to different parts of UP.... There are many outsider especially UP wala who now settled in my home town amicably buddy..... I even have friends from Sikh community who settled there in UK after 47 partitions.....
@Blue_Eyes dekh kya bol rahe hai log pahari ko..... Supremacist .....
Flaunting a ethnic distinction is not supremacist attitude as in my DP buddy....
@Aarush @manishmaithani dada

i don't think so,, you are not a supremacist,, neither any pahari person (whom i met so far),

 

[Shamain]

@Akheilos @Shamain @Hiptullha @salarsikander @DESERT FIGHTER @Irfan Baloch @Hyperion

Guys could you please shed more light on when UN asked Pakistan to vacate Azad Kashmir and hand it to India before plebiscite could be held in Indian Occupied Kashmir?

Uff they are horrible trollls they know jack abt history or anything, dont bother with this level trolls

anchal mean 'area' right? not mountain..

Anchal means hinduguy ka dupatta

 

[livingdead]

i don't think so,, you are not a supremacist,, neither any pahari person (whom i met so far),

what happened to harit pradesh.. behnji wanted it..

Uff they are horrible trollls they know jack abt history or anything, dont bother with this level trolls


Anchal means hinduguy ka dupatta

 

[Midas]

how the hell we have Pakistani members trolling here? And how the hell Kashmir is coming in discussion?

@Indian Members, Ignore the trolls.

 

[Sam.]

We wanted uttranchal but they made it uttrakhand and lots of thing going on like govt jobs vacancy only happeneing in pahari districts.

[HASHTAG]#justice[/HASHTAG] for plane people of uttrakhand

I am from haridwar distt ;(

 

[Soulspeek]

Is it a mistake or you purposefully write Inidan? Can I write Pakshitan too by mistake?

I have been noting that you guys write Ghandi instead of Gandhi. Hope you guys don't want us to misspell Jinnah too.

Inidan Occupied Kashmir is illegally occupied by India. Therefore it is a disputed territory and will remain so unless a just solution is found.

You can keep spreading your propaganda, but that does not change the facts on ground.

Yes. Domicile and other regressive policies. There is a great divide between hills n plain districts.

We wanted uttranchal but they made it uttrakhand and lots of thing going on like govt jobs vacancy only happeneing in pahari districts.

[HASHTAG]#justice[/HASHTAG] for plane people of uttrakhand

I am from haridwar distt ;(

 

[livingdead]

We wanted uttranchal but they made it uttrakhand and lots of thing going on like govt jobs vacancy only happeneing in pahari districts.

[HASHTAG]#justice[/HASHTAG] for plane people of uttrakhand

I am from haridwar distt ;(

what happened to haridwar..

 

[utraash]

Adi Shankara birthplace is Kaladi .
There is a legend about him.He was born to an old parent through the blessing of Shiva.
They worshipped Lord Shiva and later Lord appeared and gave two choice.Either they will get an insane son but will live fora long time or a brilliant beautiful son but live only for 16 years.
Parents took second choice and Adi Shankara was born.Within 8 yearshe learned 4 vedas and 6 Shastras.
At the age of 16 Veda Vyasa debated with him about Mahabharat and later he blessed him for another 16 years.
There is no proof about this may besome myth.

But Adi Shankara visited Sarvanja Peeth in Kashmir after defeated entire scholars
in Bharat.AFAIK he stayed around somewhere in Himalaya ,somewhere in Uttranchal.
If he was returned to South he would have been at birth place.

Thanks buddy... But I am interested to know about his last days n where he had last breathe though to me he never died Tragically khoongressi curriculum has no mention of his contribution to Dharma however that's a different debate.....
As per our belief Adi took Samadhi at Kedarnath and there is also temple dedicated to him at his Samadhi Sthal but other sources claimed somewhere in Kerala or Kanchipuram..... Can you shed more light on this ?

 

[Sam.]

Yes. Domicile and other regressive policies. There is a great divide between hills n plain districts.

Lol there is no divide between both but yeah govt does do partiality as vacancy open in hills area more often than plains as where is the vote bank is.

what happened to haridwar..

lol nothing just ended up in uttrakhand which was faced with lots of rigidness that time but now we are happy because law and order situation improved tremendously where our neighbor cities in UP are lol situation

 

[utraash]

Uttarakhand was the name given by the people of northern part of UP that comprised the areas of Garhwal and Kumaon hills. The two neighbouring hill areas demanded a separate state and naming it a movement for garhwal state or kumaon state would not have united the hill people. Almost all the organizations that supported a separate state were agreeable on the name uttarakhand. BJP too supported the creation of new states of Jharkhand and Uttarakhand but they preferred to call it Vananchal and Uttaranchal. It was during their regime that the new states were created and the govt. issued notification in the names of Jharkhand and Uttaranchal. However, people & the organizations that fought for the separate state in the name of Uttarakhand could not relate much with the new term Uttaranchal and demanded the change of name which, if i am not mistaken, the congress govt. readily obliged.

No it was not like the way you narrated it .... Even when we were demanding new state we were proposing the same name UTTRAKHAND... There was no tug of war between Garhwali n Kumauni ppl over the name though we had some differences of opinions but not regarding name.... Uttranchal name was given by bjp gov back then to appear more accommodative to ppl of plains.... However Uttrakhand name was chosen for historical reasons dated to Mahabharata times....
Later when khoongressi gov change the name it did to score some votes just before the election n there was no such hue n cry to change the name ...... Not a single agitation carried out by us to change the name.....
When that movement was at its peak I was 10-12 yrs old kid so I know what was exactly happening around ....