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References: India

  1. India State/UTs & Districts - National Portal of India, Government of India - The official list of India's 28 states and 8 union territories with their capitals, updated in 2026. Use it to check any state or capital in this chapter.
  2. Article 1: Name and Territory of the Union - Constitution of India (constitutionofindia.net) - The opening article that calls the country "India, that is Bharat," with notes on how the Constituent Assembly debated the name.
  3. Eighth Schedule: Languages - Constitution of India (constitutionofindia.net) - The list of India's 22 scheduled languages and how it grew from 14 in 1949. Helpful for the sections on linguistic states and Hindi.
  4. Overall 65.79 percent voter turnout recorded in General Elections 2024, says ECI - All India Radio News (Prasar Bharati) - The Election Commission's turnout figures for the 2024 general election, including the highest and lowest states.
  5. President Murmu promulgates Ladakh Official Languages Regulation 2025 - All India Radio News (Prasar Bharati) - A short report on the 2025 rule that made Bhoti and Purgi official in Ladakh, a good example of how India's language map keeps changing.
  6. Chandrayaan-3 Details - Indian Space Research Organisation - ISRO's own description of the Chandrayaan-3 lander, rover and science instruments.
  7. India: Quick Facts - Encyclopaedia Britannica - Current basic facts about India, including its government, leaders, languages and currency.
  8. Population, total: India - World Bank Open Data - The source of this book's 2025 population figure for India. Switch to "Urban population (% of total)" to see how fast India's cities are growing.
  9. Hindi rises, speakers of South Indian languages and Urdu fall, shows 2011 census data - Scroll.in - Charts that explain the 2011 census language data, including the share of Indians who named Hindi, Bengali and other languages as their mother tongue.
  10. Adivasi - Wikipedia - An overview of India's Adivasi communities, the meaning of the word, the major groups and regions, and the 2011 census share (8.6%). Use it as a starting point and follow its census citations.