The Territories and States of India

An offshoot of the well‐known and well‐respected Europa regional series of yearbooks is the Territories and States series. India joins companion volumes for the Republic of China and the Russian Federation. Although smaller in format than the parent series, the factual, authoritative and impartial description of these important regions carries on the Europa tradition.

India is a large, populous (over a billion people) and complex country, with myriad climatic, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural differences. It currently has 28 states and seven territories. These stretch from the disputed Jammu and Kashmir in the north to Kerala in the south, and...