On 20-Apr-11, at 4:19 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Indrajit Gupta
<[email protected]> wrote:
• Economically and culturally advanced (except districts of Tamil
Nadu in its north-west): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka;
• Economically advanced, culturally still backward: Maharashtra,
Gujarat;
• Economically backward, culturally advanced: West Bengal,
Jharkhand, Bihar, the entire north-east;
• Economically backward, culturally backward: Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal,
Jammu & Kashmir.
How do you define "culturally backward", Forest Dweller?
I'm more interested in the definition of economically backward, since
AFAIK Haryana beats all the states on the above "economically
advanced" lists on GDP per capita, and Punjab ranks higher than Andhra
and Karnataka at very least.
Where did these lists come from?
-Taj.
