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On 1 November 1956, Bombay State was re-organized under the States Reorganisation Act on linguistic lines, absorbing various territories including the Saurashtra and Kutch States, which ceased to exist. On 1 May 1960, Bombay State was dissolved and split on linguistic lines into the two states of Gujarat, with Gujarati speaking population and ...
Further changes occurred in the 1960s. On May 1, 1960, the bilingual Bombay State was divided into two states: Maharashtra for Marathi speakers and Gujarat for Gujarati speakers. Similarly, on November 1, 1966, the larger Punjab state was split into a smaller Punjabi-speaking Punjab and a Haryanvi-speaking Haryana.
On 1 May 1960, the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat were created out of the bilingual Bombay State, and on 1 November 1966, the larger Punjab state was divided into the smaller, Punjabi-speaking Punjab and Haryanvi-speaking Haryana states.
May 1, 2023 · The two states were created out of the bilingual Bombay State, which used to cover nearly one-sixth of all land in India. But Gujarati and Marathi linguistic subnationalism eventually won out, leading to the bifurcation of the Bombay State into a Gujarati-speaking and a Marthi-speaking state.
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Sep 22, 2018 · In 1960, the Indian state of Bombay was split into two states, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The city of Mumbai was given to Maharashtra, leaving Gujarat without a capital city; At that time, Ahmedabad was selected to be the first capital of the newly created state
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Maharashtra and Gujarat: In 1960, the bilingual state of Bombay was dividedg into two separate states—Maharashtra for Marathispeaking people and Gujarat for Gujarati-speaking people. Gujarat was established as the 15th state of the Indian Union. Dadra and Nagar Haveli: The Portuguese ruled this territory until its liberation in 1954.
Bombay state was split into Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960 by the Bombay Reorganisation Act. Goa, Daman and Diu was established as a union territory, following the liberation of Goa from Portuguese in 1961. In 1961, during Bengali Language Movement, protests erupted demanding a separate Barak state.
