mentioned as a separate unit in the new Constitution as was done in case of the Sind and Orissa under the Government of India Act, . The Drafting Committee of Constituent Assembly, however, found such a mention of Andhra was not possible until the geographical schedule of the province was outlined. Hence, on June , , Chairman Rajendra Prasad set up a -member commission, called The Linguistic Provinces Commission with a specific brief to examine and report on the formation of Reconstruction of Post-colonial India including the Travancore-Cochin State and the Malabar district of Madras, came into existence. Karnataka came into being including the Mysore State and also parts of Bombay and Madras States.
In all these cases, the core principle was linguistic identity. In May Gujarat was created from Maharastra to fulfil the demand of the Gujarati speaking people. Subsequently, the demand for a Punjabi subha continued to be described by the establishment as separatist until . The trifurcation of Punjab, brought to an end the process that was initiated by the Indian National Congress, in , to put language as the basis for the reorganization of the provinces.