• The demand for the state reorganization was 100% legitimate.
  • Tilak demanded linguistic reorganization of provinces of British India (Home Rule League Movement).
  • 1920 Nagpur session - Provincial Congress committees were set up on linguistic lines.
  • Dhar Commission 1948: Rejected the demand.
  • JVP Committee 1948: Favoured linguistic basis for reorganization.
  • 1952: Andhra State.
  • State Reorganization Act 1956
  • State Reorganization Commission rejected 👇
    • Splitting of Bombay province into Maharashtra and Gujarat.
    • Creation of demand as demand was based on religion.
    • The demand for Telangana by the people of the Telangana region of the Princely states of Hyderabad was rejected.
  • Northeast in 1956: Manipur (UT), Tripura (UT), NEFA, and Assam.
  • 1960 - Agreement on the creation of Nagaland, implemented in 1963.
  • 1986 - Statehood Goa.
  • 2000 - Jharkhand from Bihar, Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand from Uttar Pradesh.
  • 2014: Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.