Published - March 05, 2026 07:13 pm IST

India’s population shift and delimitation: Ravi K. Mishra breaks down the North–South divide from a longer historical perspective The prevailing narrative holds that southern states achieved demographic transition earlier and more decisively than their northern counterparts — and face electoral penalty for it in the coming delimitation. Historian Ravi K. Mishra brings a 150-year longitudinal view to Terms of Engagement and argues that this framing flattens a more layered historical record.

Updated - July 29, 2026 11:41 am IST

Published - March 05, 2026 07:13 pm IST