Bombay Citizens' Committee
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Bombay Citizens' Committee was an advocacy group which lobbied to keep Bombay city out of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

 during the state reorganisation. The group was headed by a leading cotton industrialist Purshottamdas Thakurdas. J.R.D. Tata was one of the members and the committee was composed mostly of Gujarathis. The group submitted a 200 page application to States reorganisation committee in year 1954.
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