History
State Reorganisation 1956: Revisiting The Act That Demarcated Independent India & Set Unique...
After gaining their independence from the colonisers, the 500 disjointed princely states decided to revise their boundaries to form new states. The States Reorganisation Act was then put into place, enacted on August 31 1956, and made effective from November 1, 1956. It transformed the way India was...