CBSE 2025 · Region 5 · Set 1 · Q36 · 4 marks

Read the given source and answer the questions that follow : State Reorganisation Commission "The report of the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC), was implemented on November $\displaystyle 1$, 1956. This, in its own time and own way, has also transformed the political and institutional life of the nation. ... Gandhi and other leaders promised their followers that when freedom came, the new nation would be based on a new set of provinces, these based on the principle of language. However, when India was finally free in $\displaystyle 1947$, it was also divided... Far from undermining Indian unity, linguistic states have helped strengthen it. It has proved to be perfectly consistent to be Kannadiga and Indian, Bengali and Indian, Tamil and Indian, Gujarati and Indian. To be sure, these states based on language sometimes quarrel with one another. ($\displaystyle 36.1$) What promise did Gandhiji make to his followers ? ($\displaystyle 36.2$) How did language strengthen the unity of India ? ($\displaystyle 36.3$) Mention the names of major language of Kerala and Andhra Pradesh states.

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