Evidence1960

Bombay State becomes Maharashtra and Gujarat

Name: Bombay State becomes Maharashtra and Gujarat
Start: 1960
End: 1960
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Gateway Of India. Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Samyukta Maharashtra and Mahagujarat movements split bilingual Bombay State into Maharashtra and Gujarat on 1 May.

Bombay city, claimed by both, went to Maharashtra after an agitation in which more than a hundred people were killed in police firing; Gujarat took Ahmedabad as its first capital. Punjab and Haryana followed the same logic in 1966.

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