Question

The states in India were organized largely on linguistic basis in the year ___________
A. 1947
B. 1950
C. 1952
D. 1956

Answer 1

Hint The act is known as the States Reorganization Act. It was a significant change of the limits of India's states and regions, sorting them out along etymological lines. The States Reorganization Act came into act similarly at a similar time as The Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act.

Complete step-by-step solution
The interest for states to be coordinated on an etymological premise was grown even before India accomplished autonomy from British standards. A first-of-its-sort phonetic development began in 1895, in what is presently Odisha. The development picked up energy in later years with the interest for a different Orissa Province to be shaped by bifurcating the current Bihar and Orissa Province. Due to the endeavors of Madhusudan Das, the Father of Odia patriotism, the development, in the end, accomplished its goal in 1936, when Orissa Province turned into the principal Indian state (pre-freedom) to be coordinated based on regular dialects. The post-freedom period saw the rising of political developments for the making of new states created on phonetic lines. The development to make a Telugu-talking state out of the northern part of Madras State accumulated quality in the years after freedom, and in 1953, the sixteen northern Telugu-talking locales of Madras State turned into the new State of Andhra. During the 1950–1956 period, other little changes were made to state limits: the little territory of Bilaspur was converged with Himachal Pradesh on 1 July 1954; and Chandernagore, a previous area of French India, was fused into West Bengal in 1955. Be that as it may, post-autonomy, the principal state to be made on a semantic premise was Andhra in 1953, made out of the Telugu-talking northern pieces of Madras State. The States Reorganization Act, 1956 was a significant change of the limits of India's states and regions, sorting them out along etymological lines. Although extra changes to India's state limits have been made since 1956, the States Reorganization Act of 1956 remains the absolute most broad change in state limits since the autonomy of India in 1947.

So, option D is the correct answer.

Note The States Reorganization Act came into effect at the same time as the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956.