Pradesh is an Indian province. The name means a (subdivision or) division of a Desh or country. Pradesh is usually translated as a State, in parallel of the states of the United States of America, but the Indian pradesh does not have the same status, rights and dignity as these states. On the contrary, Australian states and Canadian provinces have nearly the same status, rights and dignity as the States of the U.S.A., and so did the provinces of British India until the present dispensation was adopted by means of the 1950 Indian Constitution. Desh (hindi:देश) Derived from Sanskrit word (देशः) this word means country In the context of the history of Maharashtra, the Marathi people, and of the Maratha Empire or Maratha Confederacy, founded by Shivaji as the Hindawi Swaraj (Hindu Free State), Desh is an abbreviation for Maharashtra-desh, that historical... The Provinces of India were those portions of India ruled directly by officials of the British East India Company and, from 1858 to Indian Independence in 1947, by the British Crown. ... Dispensation is the act of an authority making an exception to laws, standards, or customs. ...
The adjective form, or equivalent of provincial is pradeshik.
The word Pradesh is also part of the formal name of provinces or states created since 1947:
Arunachal Pradesh borders the state of Assam to the south and Nagaland to the south east.
Arunachal Pradesh is one of two main disputed regions between India and China, the other being Aksai Chin: the People's Republic of China does not recognize the state of Arunachal Pradesh, nor the McMahon Line, which it regards as an illegal line of occupation.
"Arunachal Pradesh" means "land of the dawn-lit mountains" [1] or "land of the rising sun" [2].
The state is bordered on the west by Gujarat, on the northwest by Rajasthan, on the northeast by Uttar Pradesh, on the east by Chhattisgarh, and on the south by Maharashtra.
Northern Madhya Pradesh was conquered by the Muslim Delhi Sultanate in the 13th century.
Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the former British Central Provinces and Berar and the princely states of Makrai and Chhattisgarh, with Nagpur as the capital of the state.
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