TFR colonialism.

"India's total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped to 1.9 from 2.1, according to the 2024 Sample Registration System (SRS) report, pushing most Indian states below the replacement fertility level of 2.1 children per woman. Only six states - Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand - continue to remain above the replacement mark, while Delhi recorded the country's lowest TFR at 1.2." ET. And that is a problem that could divide the country. The Constitution says that every parliamentary constituency should have roughly equal population. Which is fair. The problem is that populations of the Hindi states, mocked as the 'Cow Belt' (wikipedia) by non-Hindi states, are increasing while they are falling in the non-Hindi speaking states. The government proposes to increase the total number of seats in the Lok Sabha from 550 to 850 and adjust the number of seats of each state according to population  (PRS), based on the 2011 Census instead of the ongoing 2026-27 Census (censusindia.gov,in). If that occurs, Tamil Nadu's seat strength in the Lok Sabha will decline from 39 to 32 and Kerala's from 20 to 15, while UP will see a rise from 80 to 89, Bihar from 40 to 46 and Rajasthan from 25 to 30. Hindi colonialism replacing British colonialism is unacceptable to non-Hindi states. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu announced a scheme, under which "families will receive Rs 30,000 for the birth of a third child and Rs 40,000 for a fourth child." "According to him, around 300,000 families - accounting for 58% of the total - currently have only one child, while about 217,000 families have two or more children." HT. If delimitation actually takes place and southern states refuse to accept it what will Prime Minister Narendra Modi do? Will he use the army and air force to bomb them into submission? He is ruthless enough to do so. He imposed a stringent lockdown on 24 March 2020 when there were only 519 cases of Covid (BBC), which was devastating for the poor migrant workers who had to walk hundreds of miles, with little children, back to their villages (TOI) without any help from the government. Populations could change quickly if there are fewer females. "Despite taking a series of steps to suspected gender selection and foeticide practices last year after alarm bells rang over a falling sex ratio at birth (SRB) in Haryana," the "SRB for the first four months is 895, sharply below last year's 925." TOI. For some unknown reason India reports SRB as the number of girls per 1000 boys, while the rest to the world counts the number of males per 100 females, the normal distribution being 105-107 boys to 100 girls (wikipedia). Which means India should normally have about 952 females to 1000 males at birth. However, "As per the latest 5th report of National Family health Survey (NFHS 5, 2019-21) of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare the sex ratio of the total population (females per 1000 males) is 1020 for the country as a whole, with a sex ratio rural at 1037 and sex ratio urban at 985." pib.gov.in. This is entirely laughable. If the normal SRB for India should be around 952 girls for 1000 boys, in keeping with the rest of the world, how can we have 68 extra females for the country and 85 extra females in rural areas, when thousands of girl babies are being aborted before birth? Even adult women are not safe. Twisha Sharma was found hanging in her marital home, apparently after months of abuse for dowry. Her lawyer husband Samarth Singh was absconding for 10 days before surrendering to police, and her mother-in-law, retired judge Giribala Singh, continued to defame the dead woman, accusing her of extra-marital affairs and mental problems. HT. Colonialism by these people would be worse than that of the British. Colonialism based on TFR. Disaster.