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"The report of the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC), was
implemented exactly 50 years ago, on November 1, 1956. This, in its
own time and own way, has also transformed the political and
institutional life of the nation Gandhi and other leaders promised
their followers that when freedom came, the new nation would be based
on a new set of provinces, these based on the principle of language
However, when India was finally freed in 1947, it was also divided...
Partition was the consequence of a primordial attachment to one's faith,
how many more partitions would that other primordial loyalty, language,
lead to? So ran the thinking of Nehru, Patel and Rajaji.
Far from undermining Indian unity, linguistic states have helped strengthen
it. It has proved to be perfectly consistent to be Kannadiga and Indian,
Bengali and Indian, Tamil and Indian, Gujarati and Indian To be sure, these
states based on language sometimes quarrel with one another.
While these disputes are not pretty, they could in fact have been far worse.
It is the formation of linguistic states that has allowed India to escape
what might have been a worse fate still. If the sentiments of the native
speakers of Telugu, Marathi, et al had been disregarded, what we
might have here was 'One language: 14 or 15 nations'."​

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The State Reorganization Act, 1956 came into effect 1st November 1956. The act recommended organization of boundaries of the states based on linguistic lines. State Reorganization Commission was appointed by PM Jawaharlal Nehru in December 1953 and the commission submitted its report on 30 September 1955. The report's recommendations were debated in Indian parliament and later bill was passed to amend constitution.