ABSTRACT
The Union Home Ministry’s own chronicle puts the matter of resizing, right peopling and the right shaping in the light of the perennial concern for governmental rationality. The States Reorganisation Act was the vindication of the linguistic principle of nationality on the one hand, and an admission that the governmental problem of right shaping the territory was perennial on the other. Initially, the rulers had thought that reorganisation was a matter of first, the southern part, then the western and the northwestern parts, and finally the frontier region in the north-east. To rule means to rule people which also means to rule a territory. That capital is now the critical factor in the drive for reorganisation is borne out by the significance of resource in the scramble for territory and the territorial conflicts. Reorganisation of States has given rise to trans-boundary water conflicts.
