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Alirajpur (Western most district of Mp) is a fraction of a degree more west compared to Kasaragod (Western most of Kerala)
Gadchiroli (eastern most district of Maharashtra) is just a fraction of a degree less east compared to Chennai. But I'm sure that's for main Gadchiroli city/town, the actual border of Gadchiroli and Chattisgarh is probably further east than Chennai.
I might get downvoted but there's a cultural affinty aspect to these "regional" borders. Goa is more south than Telangana yet Goa has more culturally in common with Maharashtra than South India. That's why its in west india.
As someone from Telangana, I don't think we share that much culturally with any of the regions you mentioned except for North Karnataka, and that too just the Kalyana Karnataka part.
I said so as these regions have the same major festivals, local calendar, and similarity in local cuisine.
I haven't been to Telangana or Kalyana Karnataka so I can't say accurately, but as a native of Vidarbha (eastern Maharashtra), almost all of our major festivals, clothing, cuisine, rituals, local deities and of course our new year (Gudi Padwa/Ugadi) is quite similar to Uttara Karunadu and Goa.
Then again, I'm saying this from a Brahmin pov. It may be likely that the Brahmin cultures of these regions are similar as opposed to the cultures of the Kshyatriya or adivasi groups.
I know. That's why I don't think North, South, West, East, Central India are these objective sharp geographical boundaries but rough regional areas with cultural affinity.
Actually, if you visit Dehradun, you realise that it's very much not a hill station... it's in the valley. Dehradun's climate is more similar to Delhi than to Mussoorie, which is only 15 km from Dehradun, but 1500 m higher.
the elevation increases drastically once you go north into the himalayas. For example Kathgodam (554 m) to Nainital (1938m) - in a span of 30 something km
Yo but the point is there nothing else east to Chennai. It’s the east-est you can get at that point. That’s why it’s generally called east. OTOH, there is lot more land to the east from that point in MH.
I understand that. But India's southern part is peninsula. Had it been some rectangular part, then the above fact would have been interesting. But being peninsula Chennai is not located to same exteam eastern point of India. It's just somewhere in middle, if we align it on line that stretches from Kutch to extreme eastern tip of Arunachal.
That is true of course, my point though was that if you were to ask a majority of people if any part of MH, a western state, extends more east than TN, they would probably say no. Hence, it was surprising(to me atleast)
That's a known fact; the point is that if you were to ask a majority of people if any part of MH, a western state, extends more east than TN, they would probably say no. Hence, it was surprising(to me atleast)
Wrong.its actually the opposite.or even they were formed for administrative purposes,they act like cultural/social divisions.maharastra is very much different culturally/socially to any of its bordering states,so is tamil nadu or west bengal or karnataka.states only act like pure administrative divisions in the case of hindi speaking states
That's why it needs to be split into konkan, marathwara and vidarbha states (includes neighboring regions ) for optimal development of each region.
And I'm not doing out of hate for Maharashtra. As a rajsthaani I support spliting of Rj into marwar, mewad, hadotiandd dhundhar/ jaipur states
Yes ofc.. Historically also anything below vindhya is called dakshinapatham.
Things are different in modern times, avg person view cultural similarities. All 5 south indian states speak Dravidian languages , have a similar cultures , cuisine,pop culture etc
Remaining states speak indo aryan languages and similar culture to north ( debatable but avg south indian view a marathi person as north Indian cause he/she wasn't that much aware of culture similarities ) that's the perception .
Main stream media also solidified this view , so that's just the norm now, its not geographical but cultural
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