Are linguistic states a costly mistake?

Babloo Sant a 76 year old lady gave a lecture arranged by “SCEP” [Senior Citizens Enrichment Programme]an Indiranagar Senior Citizen initiative. The lecture happened to be a nostalgia Chronicle of Indian morality, Babu raj and British Raj. Babloo Mehta became Babloo Sant after her Marriage to a Sant. She was of the Mehta Family a grand daughter of a Police officer in the British Raj era. The family had Raibahadur and Rai Sahibs in the British raj. Her Grand father retired as a head of CBI. He was an accomplished Tennis player and a Lawyer by qualification. He Shiv Charan Das Mehta was 6’2’’ tall and very fair and handsome. He joined the Police force as a sub inspector. As a police officer the general view was good salary and extra ‘bribe’ income. They were in seventh Heaven. Home town posting was taboo. He tried home town for some time with no promotion prospect. He changed his stance later to move around the country a lot. Had a big family of 6 children and two parents to look after. Indians were known to have too many children. British thought that Grand Father enjoyed a great life style. They had to learn western culture of knife and fork, have a changed life style, with huge house servants and the like. 

1. Parties with Governors and gentry
2. Official dress
3. garden parties
4. Training to learn British etiquette
5. Tennis parties
6. Enid Blight style dinners
7. Grand Ma was her self in spite
8. Grand Ma Learnt to be an expert Bridge Player
9. Became like English Gentry but were still Indians at heart
10. Love for Hindi
11. British were the common enemy
12. The common enemy was the rallying point for Independence 

Punjabis are very good hosts. Bablloo Sant a punjabi, had a roaring public school in Bombay in her hay days, which had Dawood Ibrahim Children. No problem with Muslim students. They even enjoyed vande mataram! Babloo was the principal looking into administration and directing the school. A History honors degree holder, she believed in bringing out talent with trust building expert interaction. Speak with heart which will be heard, to encourage personality building. What comes out of heart to heart interaction cannot be matched with authoritative expert talk. Even though black Hindus have no status in Catholic schools they flocked to these for the education which has no color. Belonging to different religion, language, sects, social status etc is a mind set. This mind set was in no way a hindrance against the threat of a common enemy the British Governament. 

Goodness has no barriers. The responsibility to integrate our country lies with us. The responsibility of integration while migrating lies with those migrating to some body else’s land. The problem of Indians in Australia facing the countries wrath by the act of their urinating in Public Park is an example. In India the Division of the country into linguistic states appears to be a costly mistake. Especially so because of the absence of the previous common enemy the British Governament.