How were the states formed
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A country is divided I to states with respect to their language
Answer in detail how states were formed :
Back in the 1920s, the Indian National Congress promised that after independence, each major linguistic group would have its own province. India had been divided on the basis of religion. Prime Minister Nehru and Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel were against the creation of linguistic states.
The Kannada speakers, Malayalam speakers, the Marathi speakers, demanded their own state. The strongest protests came from the Telugu-speaking districts of what was the Madras Presidency. Potti Sriramulu went on a hunger strike demanding the formation of Andhra state to protect the interests of Telugu speakers.
On 15 December 1952, Potti Sriramulu died. On 1 October 1953, the new state of Andhra came into being, which subsequently became Andhra Pradesh. A States Reorganisation Commission was set up, which submitted its report in 1956, recommending the redrawing of the district and provincial boundaries to form compact provinces of Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu speakers respectively. The large Hindi-speaking region was broken up into several states. In 1960, Bombay was divided into separate states for Marathi and Gujarati speakers. In 1966, the state of Punjab was divided into Punjab and Haryana.