ELUCIDATE THE BACKGROUND OF ANDHRA PRADESH FORMATION
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There are various changes which were witnessed before Andhra Pradesh finally became the linguistic state on November 1st, 1956.
The specific time from 1947 to 1956 was quite crucial especially because the major coastal regions were not the part of AP as it particularly belonged to Madras presidency of the British province.
Under the Linguistic Reorganization Act, in 1953, Telegu speakers were operated from Mysore and the Tamil speakers.
They were given the state of Andhra Pradesh.
The state of Hyderabad was split into three parts, Maharastra, Andhra State and Karnataka.
Maharashtra was merged with the Aurangabad division, Karnataka with the Gulbarga division and finally Gulshanabad and Nizamabad was merged to become a part of the state of Andhra.