Discussion
The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 reorganised Indian states primarily on the basis of
Answer: C
Correct answer: Language
The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 redrew India’s internal boundaries chiefly on linguistic lines, creating 14 states and 6 union territories. The pressure for it had built through the early 1950s and came to a head with the death of Potti Sriramulu after a 58-day fast for a Telugu-speaking state; Andhra was created in 1953, the first state formed on language, and a commission under Fazl Ali was then appointed to consider the question generally. Nehru and others had resisted the principle, fearing it would encourage separatism, but the outcome is generally judged to have strengthened the union by removing a source of grievance. The process continued afterwards: Bombay was divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960, Punjab into Punjab and Haryana in 1966, and several northeastern states were carved out in the 1970s. Later creations - Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand in 2000, and Telangana in 2014 - turned on administrative and developmental grounds rather than language.
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