Bombay (state)

Bombay - मुंबई राज्य

status	former state
Capital	Bombay
founding	1947 (as province) 1950 (state)
Dissolution / merger	May 1, 1960 (division into the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat )
surface	494,358 km² (1956)
Residents	48,264,622 (1956)
Population density	97.6 inhabitants / km² (1956)
languages	Marathi , Kannada , Gujarati
Location of Bombay in India (1951)

Bombay ( Marathi मुंबई राज्य ) was an Indian state. It existed from 1947 and 1950 to 1960.

history

With India's independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, the Presidency of Bombay became a province of the new state of India. In the following years the area was supplemented by some princely states from the Gujarati-speaking area and the United Deccan States . After the Indian Constitution came into force in 1950, the province became the state of Bombay.

Territorial changes as a result of the States Reorganization Act 1956: Bombay before 1956 Territorial gains 1956 : from Madhya Pradesh from Hyderabad Saurasthra Kachchh (Kutch) Territorial losses 1956 : 1956 to Mysore 1956 to Rajasthan
  








             Bombay border 1956-1960

In implementation of the States Reorganization Act on November 1, 1956, Bombay underwent a significant reorganization and expansion. The state were Saurashtra , Kutch of and the marathisprachige part Division Nagpur from Madhya Pradesh ( Vidarbha ) and the Marathwada region of Hyderabad affiliated. The southern Kannada-speaking parts of Bombay were annexed to the state of Mysore (since 1973 Karnataka ). A small part of the Banaskantha district went to Rajasthan . A major reason why the state of Bombay was not also divided according to ethnic-language criteria under the States Reorganization Act was that one did not find out about the affiliation of the large, cosmopolitan metropolis of Bombay , which is comprised of both Gujarati - and Marathi - Speakers was claimed, could agree.

In terms of area, Bombay was the largest among the Indian states, and in terms of population the second largest after Uttar Pradesh.

politics

During the state's existence, elections to the parliament of Bombay took place twice (1951 and 1957). The following table shows the election results. Only parties are considered that won a constituency or received more than 500,000 votes in at least one of the two elections. The political landscape was completely dominated by the Congress Party, which received large majorities in parliament in both elections. The largest opposition parties were the socialists and the left-wing socialist Peasants and Workers Party .

Elections to the parliament of Bombay

Political party	1951				1957
	be right		Seats		be right		Seats
	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
Indian National Congress (INC)	5,556,334	49.95%	269	85.4%	8,131,604	48.66%	234	59.1%
Peasants and Workers Party (PWP)	717.963	6.45%	14th	4.4%	1,113,436	6.66%	31	7.8%
All India Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF)	344.718	3.10%	1	0.3%	1,041,355	6.23%	13	3.3%
Communist Party of India (CPI)	159.994	1.44%	1	0.3%	607.383	3.63%	13	3.3%
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM)	35.194	0.32%	0	0.0%	71,514	0.43%	1	0.3%
Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS)	4876	0.04%	0	0.0%	260,826	1.56%	1	1.0%
Socialist Party (SP)	1,330,246	11.96%	9	2.9%	-	-	-	-
Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (KMPP)	559,492	5.03%	0	0.0%	-	-	-	-
Praja Socialist Party (PSP)	-	-	-	-	1,498,700	8.97%	36	9.1%
Kamgar Kisan Paksha (KKP)	248.130	2.23%	2	0.6%	-	-	-	-
Krishikar Lok Party (KLP)	107,408	0.97%	1	0.3%	-	-	-	-
Independent	1,917,574	17.24%	18th	5.7%	3,972,548	23.77%	64	16.2%
All other parties	141,313	1.59%	0	0.0%	14,794	0.09%	0	0.0%
total	11.123.242	100.0%	315	100.0%	16.712.160	100.0%	396	100.0%

In the first all-India parliamentary election in 1951/52 , Bombay elected 45 out of 489 members for the Lok Sabha . Of these, 40 went to the Congress Party, 3 to independents and one each to the PWP and SCF. In the all-India parliamentary election in 1957 , 66 of the 494 MPs came from Bombay. These MPs were distributed among the parties as follows: 38 Congress, 8 independents, 5 each for SCF and PSP, 4 each for CPI and PWP, 2 for BJS. In the Rajya Sabha , the state house of the Indian parliament, Bombay initially had 17 votes out of 215 and then 27 out of 220 after 1956.

resolution

After separatist movements that demanded both a Marathi-speaking and a Gujarati-speaking state ( Samyukta Maharashtra Andolan , Mahagujarat Andolan , movement for a united Maharashtra or Greater Gujarat), Bombay became part of the new states on May 1, 1960 with the Bombay Reorganization Act Gujarat and Maharashtra split.

See also

• List of Governors of Bombay # Independence (since 1947)
• List of Chief Ministers of Bombay

Individual evidence

1. ^ Achyut Yagnik, Suchitra Sheth: The Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality, Hindutva, and Beyond. . Penguin Books India, 2005, ISBN 978-0-14-400038-8 , p. 226 (Accessed February 25, 2014).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on August 12, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence). 
3. ↑ THE BOMBAY RE-ORGANIZATION ACT, 1960 No.11 OF 1960. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Indian National Bar Association, April 25, 1960, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 12, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.