Yet Nehru's fear that the reorganisation would harden regionalist sentiments has also been partly justified.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
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The regionalist cause attracted 400, 000 people, a fifth of the province's population, to a rally in January.
ECONOMIST: Fragile states in the Andes (2)
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The report argued that, with a referendum on Scottish independence looming, Labour was caught "between the Scylla of the failure of its English regionalist project and the Charybdis of its dependency on its block of Scottish and Welsh MPs".