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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),<ref>{{Cite web|author=S.S. Tarapore|title = The Kings of Finance|url = https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/s-s-tarapore/the-kings-of-finance/article22993187.ece|website = thehindubusinessline.com|accessdate = 2019-02-23}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google. | '''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),<ref>{{Cite web|author=S.S. Tarapore|title = The Kings of Finance|url = https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/s-s-tarapore/the-kings-of-finance/article22993187.ece|website = thehindubusinessline.com|accessdate = 2019-02-23}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nivmAAAAMAAJ&q=purshottamdas+thakurdas+biography Himmat, Volume 15, pp. 647, 1979]</ref><ref>F.R. Moraes, ''"Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas"'', Asia Publishing House (1967), 316 p.</ref> with [[J.R.D. Tata]] as one of the members, and the committee was composed mostly of [[Gujarati people|Gujaratis]]. The group submitted a 200-page application to States reorganisation committee in year 1954.<ref>[[Ramachandra Guha]], ''[[India after Gandhi]]'', pp. 197-198</ref> | ||
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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]
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References[edit]
- ↑ S.S. Tarapore. "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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