Bombay Citizens' Committee Explained

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]

See also

• Bombay Plan
• FICCI

External links

• Book: Baker. Christopher. Johnson. Gordon. Seal. Anil. Power, Profit and Politics: : Essays on Imperialism, Nationalism and Change in Twentieth-Century India [Volume 15, Part 3]. 2009. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, United Kingdom. 9780521133869.

Notes and References

1. Web site: S.S. Tarapore. The Kings of Finance. thehindubusinessline.com. 14 November 2013 . 2019-02-23.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=nivmAAAAMAAJ&q=purshottamdas+thakurdas+biography Himmat, Volume 15, pp. 647, 1979
3. F.R. Moraes, "Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas", Asia Publishing House (1967), 316 p.
4. [Ramachandra Guha]