It's like that South India secession plan at the start of Independence. The plan fell apart because Kannadigas, Keralites, and Telugus do not want to be part of a Tamil-Centric state.
Same with the North-East. 'Khasi by birth, Indian by accident' slogans.
It is always a challenge to hold together a nation with this amount of linguistic and racial diversity.
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KAL-EL will you be vsiting South India ? Kerala? My native place
Not about the viability of a sate, but how much trouble the actors in the equation can cause.
In regions like the North-East, the various tribes fight outsiders (Assam being a recent example) but the tribes sometimes fight each other.
quite a few posters here from Indian Punjab.
That is quite expected though.
Not many as Khalistanis claim. Not as few as the Indians claim.
But there are clearly not strong enough to cause trouble like they did in the 80's.