- 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.