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),Himmat, Volume 15, pp. 647, 1979F.R. Moraes, "Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas", Asia Publishing House (1967), 316 p. 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.Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi, pp. 197-198
See also Bombay Plan FICCI
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