Bombay Citizens' commitee

Bombay Citizens' commitee

Bombay Citizens' commitee was an advocacy group which lobbied to keep Bombay city out of Maharashtra during the state reorganisation. The group was headed by a leading cotton industralist Purshottamdas Thakurdas. J.R.D. Tata was one of the members and the commitee was composed mostly of Gujarathis. The group submitted a 200 page application to States reorganisation commitee in year 1954. [Ramachandra Guha, "India after Gandhi", p 197-198]

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