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During colonial rule, the state boundaries were drawn either on administrative convenience or simply coincided with the territories annexed by the British government or the territories ruled by the princely powers. Our national movement had rejected these divisions as artificial and had promised the linguistic principle as the basis of formation of states. In fact after the Nagpur session of Congress in 1920 the principle was recognised as the basis of the reorganisation of the Indian National Congress party itself. Many Provincial Congress Committees were created by linguistic zones, which did not follow the administrative divisions of British India.

What was the name of the 'bilingual state' that was created after independence which consisted of Gujarati- and Marathi-speaking people?

Bombay

The correct answer is Option 4 - Bombay

The acceptance of the principle of linguistic states did not mean, however, that all states immediately became linguistic states. There was an experiment of ‘bilingual’ Bombay state. The ‘bilingual’ Bombay state, consisted of Gujarati and Marathi-speaking people. After a popular agitation, Maharashtra and Gujarat were created in 1960 as two distinct states.