Word: vidarbha
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...Bombay was formally divided into Marathi-speaking Maharashtra, with Bombay as the capital, and Gujarati-speaking Gujarat, with Ahmedabad as its capital. Even before the noisy celebration died down, Maharashtra police in Nagpur 400 miles away were teargassing 40,000 demonstrators demanding still another state of their own-Vidarbha...
...week's end few Indian officials gave Vidarbha much chance of becoming a reality, though Nehru's study commission had recognized that the section had its own identity and could probably make a self-sustaining state. But having once opened the lid of the Pandora's box of separatism, Nehru clearly faced a continuing fight getting it shut again...