Bombay Citizens' Committee was an advocacy group which lobbied to keep
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the '' de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the sec ...
city out of
Maharashtra during the state reorganisation. The group was headed by a leading cotton industrialist Sir
Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879-1961), with
J.R.D. Tata as one of the members, and the committee was composed mostly of
Gujaratis
The Gujarati people or Gujaratis, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who reside in or can trace their ancestry or heritage to the present-day western Indian state of Gujarat. They primarily speak Gujarati, an Indo-Aryan language. While ...
. The group submitted a 200-page application to States reorganisation committee in year 1954.
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economic ...
, '' India after Gandhi'', pp. 197-198
See also
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Bombay Plan
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FICCI
References
External links
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Reorganisation of Indian states
History of Mumbai
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