An act of partition is redrawing India’s political geography more than 60 years after Pakistan was split out of British India. The move this week to carve up India’s most populous state is a reminder that the contours of the world’s largest democracy are a work in progress. Its 28 states are protean enough to divide and subdivide along ethnic, linguistic and social lines to keep India inward-looking for decades to come. Why not 52 states?
巴基斯坦脱离英属印度60多年后，一场分治的行动正在试图重新勾画印度的政治版图。11月21日在印度北方邦(Uttar Pradesh)邦议会通过了一项提案，计划将该邦一分为四。这一拆分的举动提醒人们，这个世界最大的民主国家的地图仍未定稿。印度的28个邦都十分多变，完全可以按照族群、语言和社会阶层的界线，分割、再分割，让印度在未来的几十年里仍然只能专注于自身内部事务。为什么不干脆设置52个邦算了？
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