Bombay Citizens' Committee was an advocacy group which lobbied to keep
Bombay
Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial centre, financial capital and the list of cities i ...
city out of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
during the state reorganisation. The group was headed by a leading cotton industrialist Sir
Purshottamdas Thakurdas
Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879–1961), , was an Indian Gujarati cotton trader, banker and industrialist from Mumbai, India.
He had served as the Sheriff of Bombay in 1920 and succeeded Sir Mathuradas Vissanji in 1922 as President of Cotto ...
(1879–1961), with
J.R.D. Tata
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French born Indian industrialist, philanthropist, aviator and former chairman of Tata Group.
Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratan ...
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 a region of the Indian subcontinent primarily centered in the present-day western Indian state of Gujarat. They ...
. 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. He is an important autho ...
, '' India after Gandhi'', pp. 197-198
See also
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Bombay Plan
The Bombay Plan is the name commonly given to a World War II-era set of Import substitution industrialization-based proposals for the development of the post-independence economy of India. The plan, published in 1944/1945 by eight leading Indian in ...
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FICCI
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group based in India.
History
Established in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by Indian businessman G.D. Birla a ...
References
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Reorganisation of Indian states
History of Mumbai
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