Bombay Citizens' Committee
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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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ S.S. Tarapore (14 November 2013). "The Kings of Finance". thehindubusinessline.com. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ 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
[edit]- Baker, Christopher; Johnson, Gordon; Seal, Anil (2009). Power, Profit and Politics: : Essays on Imperialism, Nationalism and Change in Twentieth-Century India [Volume 15, Part 3]. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521133869.
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