2006-08-30 22:20:08 · 2 answers · asked by Seema S 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
The States Reorganisation Act of 1956
In 1956 the States Reorganisation Act took effect and reorganized state boundaries along linguistic lines. The new states were Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Bombay, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Madras, Mysore (later renamed Karnataka), Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Laccadive, Mincoy, and Amandivi Islands became union territories.
After 1956
The former French and Portuguese colonies in India were incorporated into the Indian Republic as the union territories of Pondicherry, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1962. Several new states and union territories have been created out of existing states since 1956. Bombay State was split into the linguistic states of Gujarat and Maharashtra on May 1, 1960 by the Bombay Reorganisation Act. The Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the Punjab along linguistic and religious lines, creating a new Hindu and Hindi-speaking state of Haryana, transferring the northern districts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh, and designating Chandigarh, the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana, a union territory. Nagaland was made a state in 1962, Meghalaya and Himachal Pradesh in 1971, and Tripura and Manipur in 1972. Arunachal Pradesh was made a union territory in 1972. The Kingdom of Sikkim was annexed to India as a state in 1975. Mizoram was made a state in 1986, and Goa and Arunachal Pradesh in 1987, while Goa's northern exclaves of Daman and Diu became a separate union territory. In 2000 three new states were created; Jharkhand was created out of the southern districts of Bihar, Chhattisgarh was created out of eastern Madhya Pradesh, and Uttaranchal was created out of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
Today India is subdivided into twenty-eight states, six union territories and the National Capital Territory od Delhi.
States States and Union Territories
* 1. Andhra Pradesh
* 2. Arunachal Pradesh
* 3. Assam
* 4. Bihar
* 5. Chhattisgarh
* 6. Goa
* 7. Gujarat
* 8. Haryana
* 9. Himachal Pradesh
* 10. Jammu and Kashmir
* 11. Jharkhand
* 12. Karnataka
* 13. Kerala
* 14. Madhya Pradesh
* 15. Maharashtra
* 16. Manipur
* 17. Meghalaya
* 18. Mizoram
* 19. Nagaland
* 20. Orissa
* 21. Punjab
* 22. Rajasthan
* 23. Sikkim
* 24. Tamil Nadu
* 25. Tripura
* 26. Uttaranchal
* 27. Uttar Pradesh
* 28. West Bengal
Union Territories
* 1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
* 2. Chandigarh
* 3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli
* 4. Daman and Diu
* 5. Lakshadweep
* 6. Pondicherry
* 7. National Capital Territory of Delhi
Source:http://www.friendsofindia.net/foi_states.php
2006-08-31 03:37:50 · answer #1 · answered by PK LAMBA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India In 1960
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