The States Reorganisation Act took effect on 1 November 1956 and redrew India's states largely on linguistic lines, creating 14 states and 6 Union Territories.…
The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act took effect on 25 August 2026, after Parliament passed it on 11 and 12 August.
An amendment to the 2014 Act names Amaravati the capital, ending the Hyderabad joint-capital arrangement in law.
The 2019 Act split the state into Jammu and Kashmir, with a legislature, and Ladakh, without one.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 carved Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh, with Hyderabad a shared capital for up to ten years.
Three new states were carved from Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on regional identity and development grounds.
The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 created three states and two Union Territories in one stroke.
Hindi-speaking areas of Punjab formed Haryana. Chandigarh became a Union Territory and joint capital.
Protests in Bombay, where more than 100 people died, ended with separate Marathi-speaking and Gujarati-speaking states.
It created 14 states and 6 Union Territories and replaced the Part A, B and C classification with states and Union Territories.
After Potti Sreeramulu's death in December 1952, Telugu-speaking districts of Madras State became Andhra State.
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