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Bombay Citizens' Committee 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 industrialist Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879-1961),[1][2][3] with J.R.D. Tata as one of the members, and the committee was composed mostly of Gujaratis. The group submitted a 200-page application to States reorganisation committee in year 1954.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ The Kings of Finance. thehindubusinessline.com.
- ↑ Himmat, Volume 15, pp. 647, 1979
- ↑ F.R. Moraes, "Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas", Asia Publishing House (1967), 316 p.
- ↑ Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi, pp. 197-198
External links
- Power, Profit and Politics: : Essays on Imperialism, Nationalism and Change in Twentieth-Century India [Volume 15, Part 3]{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Cambridge University Press(2009). ISBN 9780521133869