1 History & Culture · 1.6.2 Visalandhra and the formation of Andhra Pradesh

1.6.2.3 States Reorganisation Commission and the Telangana question

The States Reorganisation Commission (Fazl Ali, Kunzru, Panikkar; appointed December 1953, report 30 September 1955) accepted language as an important but not the only basis of states, and on Telangana advised that it stay a separate state until after the 1961 elections, joining Andhra only if two-thirds of its legislature agreed.

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  • States Reorganisation Commission
  • SRC
  • Fazl Ali
  • H.N. Kunzru
  • K.M. Panikkar
  • December 1953
  • 30 September 1955
  • 16 states 3 territories
  • States Reorganisation Act 1956
  • 14 states 6 union territories
  • Seventh Amendment 1956
  • Part A B C D states
  • Rajpramukh
  • Hyderabad State
  • Telangana
  • 1961 elections
  • two-thirds majority
  • Visalandhra
  • Article 371

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