eke “Uttar Pradesh is so situated and has such a large population, that it is convenient to treat it as a zone by itself. It is North India,” the 1951 Census report said. Despite the bifurcation and the birth of Uttarakhand in 2000, the statement still holds true categorically.

       Home to more than 230 million people, UP would be the fifth largest country in the world solely based on population--bigger than any country in Europe, Africa and Latin America. . This mammonth size, however, ends at the number. . Even though it is the cultural hub of north India, UP lags the ...