Mahagujarat movement
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Mahagujarat movement, (Māha meaning “great” in Hindi) known locally as Mahagujarat Andolan, was a political movement demanding the creation of the state of
Etymology
The term Mahagujarat includes all Gujarati-speaking areas, including mainland Gujarat and peninsulas of
Background
During
The Mahagujarat conference was held in 1948 to include all Gujarati-speaking people under one administration, finally forming Gujarat.[2][3]
According to the autobiography of
By 1952, the demand for a separate Telugu-majority Andhra State had started in Madras State. Potti Sreeramulu, one of the activists demanding Andhra State, died on 16 December 1952 after undertaking a fast-unto-death. Subsequently, Andhra State was formed in 1953. This sparked agitations all over the country demanding linguistic states.[7][10]
In December 1953, Prime Minister
Agitation
SRC considered forming states on a linguistic basis but recommended that Bombay state should stay as a bilingual state. It was further enlarged by adding
Both Gujarati and Marathi people opposed the SRC's recommendation and strongly demanded separate linguistic states. The situation became complicated because both of them wanted to include
The protest broke out in Bombay and other
Result
President
Monuments
- Shahid Smarak or Khambhi (Martyr Monument) is erected near Lal Darwaja AMTS Bus Stop, Bhadra, Ahmedabad; in memory of college students who went to local Congress House to demand separate state during movement and died in police firing. It has a statue of a young holding torch in hand. So it was called Khambhi Satyagrah (Monument Movement) earlier.[12]
- Statue of Indulal Yagnik was erected in a small garden at east end of Nehru Bridge, Ahmedabad and the garden is named after him.[20]
Participants
Notable individuals who participated in the movement include:
- Indulal Yagnik, the movement's leader[1][18]
- Sanat Mehta[21]
- Satyam Patel[22][23]
- Dinkar Mehta[6]
- Vidyagauri Nilkanth[6]
- Sharda Mehta[6]
- Ashok Bhatt[1]
- Budhdhiben Dhuv[1][11][12]
- Ravishankar Maharaj[1]
- Brahmkumar Bhatt[1]
- Prabodh Raval[1]
- Harihar Khambholja[1][18]
- Dinkar Amin[11][12]
- Ramniklal Maniyar[13]
- Ranjitrai Shastri[13]
- Markand Shastri[13]
- Jayanti Dalal
Popular culture
Several leaders associated with the movement were writers, poets and even film-makers. Maya, a novel by Indulal Yagnik is set during movement. Jayanti Dalal, Yashwant Shukla, Vinodini Nilkanth, Ishwar Petlikar, Ushnas had also used movement as their inspiration for literary works.[5] Midnight's Children, a classic by Salman Rushdie, which won the Booker Prize has a backdrop of both the Mahagujarat movement as well as Samyukta Maharashtra movement.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Desai, Jitendra (4 May 2012). "Revolution in Gujarat's blood". DNA. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 9780978951702. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ a b c "Gujarat Govt. Official website". gujaratindia.com/. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Vashi, Ashish (24 April 2010). "Friendship that formed Gujarat". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Vashi, Ashish (27 April 2010). "Midnight's Children saw golden dawn". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 9780144000388. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 9788171005413. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- ISBN 978-81-7022-196-8.
- ^ TNN (3 January 2012). "Mahagujarat stir sprang out of Dang". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ISBN 978-81-317-2133-9.
- ^ a b c "Mahagujarat martyrs families felicitated". The Times of India. 2 May 2011. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d Pathak, Dhwani (2 May 2011). "Unsung heroes". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Youngsters today have no fire in their belly". The Indian Express. 2 May 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Thomas, Melvyn Reggie (16 January 2015). "Veteran freedom fighter from Dangs, Ghelubhai Naik passes away". The Times of India Mobile Site. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ DeshGujarat (16 January 2015). "Father figure of tribal Dang region of Gujarat Ghelubhai Nayak passes away". DeshGujarat. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ DeshGujarat (16 January 2015). "How Ghelubhai Nayak and brother Chhotubhai convinced Jawaharlal on Dang's merger with Gujarat". DeshGujarat. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ Guha, Ramchandra (13 April 2003). "The battle for Bombay - from book 'Savaging the Civilised and Environmentalism: A Global History.'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Vashi, Ashish (30 April 2010). "Common man who never became CM". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ "Next step for Modi -- the national stage". Rediff News. 23 December 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Vashi, Ashish (29 April 2010). "Lifting Indu Chacha to higher pedestal". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
- ^ "Maha Gujarat dreams have, more or less, come true". May 2013.
- ^ "Mahagujarat: Love letters swamped Mahagujarat heroes | Ahmedabad News - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "MahaGujarat Andolan - the movement which created Gujarat state - inGujarat.in". Ingujarat.in. 6 December 2017.
Further reading
- Yagnik, Achyut; Suchitra Sheth (2005). The Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality, Hindutva, and Beyond. Penguin Books India. p. 226. ISBN 9780144000388. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
- Grover, Verinder; Ranjana Arora (1994). Federation of India and States' Reorganisation: Reconstruction and Consolidation. Deep and Deep Publications. p. 392. ISBN 9788171005413. Retrieved 24 November 2012.