Read the passage and answer the question: 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. |
The State Reorganisation Commission in its report accepted that the boundaries of the state in India should reflect what? |
Administrative convenience Different ethnicity Different religions Different languages |
Different languages |
The correct answer is Option 4 - Different languages The States Reorganization Commission in its report accepted that the boundaries of the state should reflect the boundaries of different languages More information: The States Reorganization Commission was established in 1953 to study linguistic and cultural divisions and recommend state boundary changes. |