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The Khasis, Jaintias and Garo tribals witnessed a movement for an autonomous state in the 1960s, resulting in the formation of a separate state of .................. in 1972.
Answer: A
The state formed in 1972 was Meghalaya.
The Khasi, Jaintia and Garo peoples of the hills of Assam campaigned through the 1960s (the All Party Hill Leaders Conference) for a separate state. Meghalaya became an autonomous state within Assam in 1970 and a full state on 21 January 1972.
Nagaland became a state in 1963, Tripura became a state in 1972 but from a former princely state and Union Territory, and Bodoland is a territorial council within Assam, not a state.
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