Understanding the Inter-Regional Disparities in India in the Post-Globalization Era.

Regional disparities are a global phenomenon. The socio-economic disparities among different regions or nations of the world have been a focus of study by those in power and to the scholars interested in regional politics and economics. Attention has been focused on disparities between Nation-States at the international level as well as disparities between the different regions within these Nation-States. Intraregional disparities within the regions have also been extensively studied and analyzed within different regions of countries. Growing inter regional disparities are a real and contemporary challenge to Indian growth and development, and to Indian politics. India being a large federal nation witnesses widespread disparities; economic, social and political, between the different regions of the Indian nation.