The States Reorganization Committee:

The formation of Andhra Pradesh spurred the struggle for making of other states on linguistic lines in other parts of the country. Hence Nehru appointed in August 1953 the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) with Justice Fazl Ali, K.M. Panikkar and Hridaynath Kunzru as members, to examine "objectively and dispassionately" the entire question of the reorganization of the states of the Union. The SRC submitted its report in October 1955. It

recognized for the most part on the linguistic principle and recommended redrawing of state boundaries on that basis. The then government accepted the SRC's recommendations.