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		Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (Marathi:à¤¸à¤à¤¯à¥à¤•à¥à¤¤ à¤®à¤¹à¤¾à¤°à¤¾à¤·à¥à¤à¥à¤° à¤¸à¤®à¤¿à¤¤à¤¿) was an organisation that spearheaded the demand, in the 1950s, for the creation of a separate Marathi-speaking state out of the (then bilingual) State of Bombay in western India.
		Prominent activists of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti were Acharya Atre, Prabodhankar Thackeray, Senapati Bapat and Shahir Shaikh among others.
		The Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti achieved its goal on May 1, 1960 when the State of Bombay was partitioned into the Marathi-speaking State of Maharashtra and the Gujarati-speaking State of Gujarat.
	www.bangalorein.com /wiki-Samyukta_Maharashtra_Samiti (748 words)

	Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A political organisation that demanded the creation of a separate Marathi-speaking state out of the then bilingual Bombay state.
		The martyrdom of its agitators in April 1960 at Hutatma Chowk led to the creation of Maharashtra state on May 1, 1960.
		It was the forerunner of the present Shiv Sena party led by Balasaheb Thackeray.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samyukta_Maharashtra_Samiti (102 words)

	Untitled Document
		The rise and growth of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement must be studied not merely in the general context of the country-wide agitation for linguistic States but also in the particular context of the society and politics in Maharashtra.
		During the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, opposition leaders in Maharashtra raised the slogan of a socialist Maharashtra in a socialist India.
		The third phase in the battle for Bombay began with the formation of the Samyuktha Maharashtra Samiti (6 February 1956) an alliance of the opposition parties and ended with the formation of a bigger bilingual Bombay state on 1st November 1956.
	www.ciil-ebooks.net /html/langMove/samyukta.html (5627 words)

	The Shiv Sena semi fascism in action
		The rapid growth of the SS in Maharashtra since the mid-eighties is, in fact, closely linked to the parallel growth of the saffron brigade at the national level during the same period.
		The Samyukta Maharashtra movement achieved victory, but as we shall analyse later, it also gave rise to a strong streak of regional chauvinism which was later exploited by "Marmik" and the SS to the hilt.
		The political situation in Maharashtra during this period, which was characterised by Congress decline and inner-Congress factionalism, was a major factor that helped the SS strategy, and another vital factor was its alliance with the BJP.
	cpim.org /marxist/200002_marxist_sena_dhawle.htm (14252 words)

	New Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first well-known rulers of Maharashtra were the Satavahanas (c.230 BC to AD 225), with Pratishthana (Paithan) as their capital.
		The Marathas dominated the political scene in Maharashtra from the middle of the 17th century to the early 19th century.
		Historians regard Bajirao I the founder of Greater Maharashtra, because it was under his reign that Maharashtra became the centre of Indian politics.
	www.theindiatravel.com /cityguide/state/maharashtra/history.html (2706 words)

	GOANEWS - BY SANDESH PRABHUDESAI
		Stating that Maharashtra has a strong legal case, Justice Chandrachud committee had recommended that both Karnataka state and the Govt of India be made respondents in the case under Art 131 of the constitution.
		The conference holds significance considering the history of Samyukta Maharashtra movement, which emerged only after a demand to this effect was made at one such sammelan held in 1939.
		The Samyukta Maharashtra Parishad was then formed in 1946, to bring all the Marathi-speaking areas together as one state.
	www.goanews.com /29apr002.htm (595 words)

	Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Its inauguration on November 1, 1956, caused a great political stir and, under the leadership of Keshavrao Jedhe, an all-party meeting was held in Pune and Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti was founded on February 6, 1956.
		SM Joshi, SA Dange, NG Gore and PK Atre fought relentlessly for Samyukta Maharashtra, even at the cost of sacrificing the lives of several people and finally succeeded in convincing Congress leaders that Maharashtra should form a separate state.
		The resignation of CD Deshmukh, the then Finance Minister of the Nehru Cabinet, had its salutary effect, and on May 1, 1960, the state of Maharashtra, which included western Maharashtra, Vidarbha and Marathwada was born with the blessings of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
	www.maharashtra.gov.in /english/community/community_samyuktaShow.php (228 words)

	Disrespect to martyrs' memorial sparks off protest in Mumbai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mumbai, July 24 (ANI): Scores of workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), which is headed by Raj Thackeray have protested against an alleged disrespect shown to a martyrs' memorial by two Shiv Sena legislators.
		Hutatma Chowk was built in memory of members of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti, a movement in which scores of people laid down their lives in an altercation with police, for the cause of a unified Maharashtra state.
		Formerly called Flora Fountain, it derives its present name from an incident in 1960 when a peaceful demonstration by the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti was fired upon by the police, resulting in some deaths.
	www.keralanext.com /news/index.asp?id=1057238 (221 words)

	Bombay state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bombay state was partitioned into Gujarat and Maharashtra states on May 1, 1960, after an agitation for a separate Marathi state turned violent.
		The volunteers of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti were fired upon at Flora Fountain in the capital Mumbai (then Bombay) by the police, leading to 105 deaths.
		The place is now designated as Hutatma Chowk, where an eternal flame burns in their memory.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /b/bo/bombay_state.html (202 words)

	WOTR - Publications - Watershed Voices
		In 1996, Darewadi, a remote, drought prone village in the rain shadow region of Maharashtra, India, was a picture of despair; depleted of natural resources necessary for rural livelihood.
		The women are co-partners and active contributors in the management of their watershed and the integrated development of their village.
		They were highly impressed by the quality of the work and the level of people’s participation and the CM lauded both WOTR as well as the village community for the excellent work done.
	www.wotr.org /wsvoices.htm (1604 words)

	Sample Chapter for Hansen, T.B.: Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay.
		This is not an exhaustive account of the history of Bombay and Maharashtra in the postcolonial era but rather a string of explorations of the political-ideological-cultural formations in the area in this period, particularly in the last few decades.
		Chapter 2 explores the formation of a distinct regional identity in Maharashtra from the 1940s on and how the distinctions between a cosmopolitan Bombay and a Marathi Deccan were crucial to the formation of the movement for Maharashtra as a mono-lingual state.
		I began to study the rise of Hindu majoritarianism in Maharashtra because I thought it was an important process with far-reaching implications for the entire region.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/i7189.html (7449 words)

	The Hindu : Vidarbha and Statehood
		Samyukta Maharashtra (the larger, unified linguistic Marathi State which is even today an unfulfilled dream of the 1950s, with large Marathi-speaking chunks left with Karnataka, Belgaum and Karwar) is not any more a large emotional issue with the people.
		It is a sad commentary that these leaders now say they were rendered helpless by the vested interests of western Maharashtra in their bid to secure justice to the region.
		Salve admit publicly that in the past Congressmen were ``flmailed'' by the high command to back down on the Vidarbha demand because the party's control of Maharashtra depended on the numerical support from the region, they were letting the cat out of the bag.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/10/14/stories/05142524.htm (1163 words)

	NetguruIndia Mumbai Regional News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Floral tributes were paid to the 101 martyrs of the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, with Mumbai as its capital, came into existence.
		Two states, Maharashtra and Gujarat, which completed 40 years on Monday, continue to lead in the Industrial Sector but find that they are now threatened by states like Tamil nadu, Andhra Pradesh and even Orissa.
		A disturbing factor about Maharashtra is that there is a continous decline in the share of private sector in the total planned investment.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/May00/mum03May00.html (1513 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka News : Briefly
		Samyukta Karnataka Sangh, Pune, will organise a get-together and matrimonial meet on November 26 at Sree Raghavendra Swamy Temple, Jewargi Colony, Gulbarga, for all communities.
		The Nagarika Horata Samiti, Aurad, has demanded that the Government immediately fill the posts of lady doctor, surgeon, and paediatrician that have been vacant for almost a year at the Government Hospital in Aurad taluk.
		In a letter to the Government, the president of the samiti, Shivraj Raga, said that the drinking water scarcity in the hospital had made several doctors avoid night duty, which had made the 100-bed hospital ineffective.
	www.hindu.com /2004/11/14/stories/2004111403400400.htm (836 words)

	rediff.com:The second coming of the Maharashtra-Karanataka border dispute
		This followed the formation of the Samyukta Maharashtra Parishad in 1946 to bring all Marathi-speaking areas under one state administration.
		However, the hysterics of the Shiv Sena and the historical trivia not withstanding, the Nationalist Congress Party, which is part of the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, is convinced that the dispute belongs to the pages of history.
		The Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti, after winning the Belgaum assembly seat nine times in a row, lost it in the last election.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/may/02bel.htm (459 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During the agitation for the creation of a linguistic State of all Marathi speaking people, he was the President of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti When violence broke out in Bombay, he staked all his goodwill by fighting against the threats to the Gujarati- speaking population.
		The mid- Fifties were tumultuous in Maharashtra, what with the agitation for a linguistic State of the Marathi spoeaking people and a movement for the liberation of Goa from Portuguese occupation.
		Under his leadership, the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti was formed as a broad front of all the supporting parties.
	kasmirtimes.com /archive/0411/041125/opinion.htm (2520 words)

	IALHI News Service: Voices through a Hundred Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The cultural and social forms which arrived with migrants to the city from different regions of Maharashtra provided the underpinnings for a distinctive working class culture, a regional identity in a cosmopolitan idiom.
		This chapter deals with the Samyukta Maharashtra movement in the late fifties and early sixties - the post Independence struggle for the creation of the linguistic state of Maharashtra, and the inclusion of Bombay City as the capital of the State.
		Maharashtra, they forced Nehru's Government to concede their demands for linguistic statehood and the inclusion of Bombay in the new state, on the fear that the city and state would be taken over by the Communists.
	www.ialhi.org /news/i0004_3.html (1421 words)

	Mumbai, Maharashtra
		It became the capital of the new linguistic state of Maharashtra in 1960.
		Mumbai is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India, with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006).
		It was officially renamed in 1960 in memory of the members of Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti, who lost their lives in an altercation with the police.
	www.indianetzone.com /2/mumbai.htm (3414 words)

	Party politics in India, 1963-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Based in Maharashtra, Shiva Sena began as a right wing terrorist organization, attempting to defend the economic interests of the native Maharashtrians against immigrants from south India states.
		The Telengana Praja Samiti (or Telengana People's Conference) was established in the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1971, and successfully contested the elections that year, winning 2% of the seats in the Lok Sabha.
		The TPS was a protest party, angry at the neglect of the Telengana region by Andhra, and demanding separate statehood for Telengana.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/0-AngloAmerica/08-India/India%201963-2000.htm (4441 words)

	Koyna Nagar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Koyna Nagar is a town in (A historical area in west-central India) Maharashtra, (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India.
		The Nehru Gardens is a landscaped garden which overlooks the (Click link for more info and facts about Koyna Dam) Koyna Dam is two kilometres away from the town.
		The gardens are well maintained, though an eatery is absent and important signage about the dam is all in (An Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script) Marathi.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ko/Koyna_Nagar.htm (484 words)

	Maharashtra assembly elections, 2004 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		(A group of persons gathered together for a common purpose) Assembly elections will be held in (A historical area in west-central India) Maharashtra, (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India on October 13, 2004.
		Other political parties contesting are the Bahujan Samajwadi Party, the (Click link for more info and facts about Samajwadi Party) Samajwadi Party, the (Click link for more info and facts about Rashtriya Janata Dal) Rashtriya Janata Dal, and the LJP.
		Upto 65.8 million voters will use 66,000 (Click link for more info and facts about electronic voting machine) electronic voting machines to elect the 288 members of the Maharashtra legislative assembly.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Maharashtra_assembly_elections,_2004.htm (213 words)

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		Pressure to redraw the state boundaries on linguistic lines led to tension between Bombay's Marathi and Gujarati-speaking communities and violence in 1955 claimed 106 lives.
		There was some debate about Bombay becoming a separate Union Territory to preserve its cosmopolitan character until the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti (SMS), a multiparty alliance which aimed to create a Marathi-speaking state, won control of the Bombay Municipal Council (BMC) in 1957.
		It claimed Bombay as the capital of Maharashtra and tensions between Gujarati and Marathi speakers in the city rose and flared into violence.
	www.travel-maharashtra.com /maharashtra_history.htm (874 words)

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		I have come back again and again to it and have marvelled at how it managed to be a City in which people can move around with ease, where the public transport works [try Delhi for a change] and where by and large people are tolerant.
		The twin crises of Bombay came from the disappearance of the textile industry and the founding of the Shiv Sena.
		Monthly tributes had to be collected and paid in cash to Mrs G. by her satraps.
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	Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Definition / Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Definition / Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Research
		A political organisation that demanded the creation of a separate Marathi-speaking state out of the then bilingual Bombay stateBombay state is a former state of India.
		The martyrdom of its agitators in April 1960 at Hutatma ChowkHutatma Chowk is a square in south Mumbai, formerly known as Flora Fountain, where in 1960 peaceful agitators of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti were fired upon by police.
	www.elresearch.com /Samyukta_Maharashtra_Samiti (377 words)

	Separate Vidarbha is not viable
		Maharashtra had a surplus of 11.78 per cent from the total receipts of Rs 39,098.6 crore against expenditures of Rs 39,086.6 crore, while Vidarbha has a deficit of Rs 2,8479 million with expenditures of Rs 10,618.2 crore exceeding the total receipts of Rs 7,770.3 crore.
		Of the Rs l5,686 crore of income tax collected in Maharashtra, Mumbai accounts for Rs 4,365 crore and Vidarbha Rs 370 crore and so also in case of Central excise duty, Vidarbha’s share is just Rs 890 crore as against Mumbai’s Rs 11,400 crore out of the state’s Rs 17,252 crore.
		While some believe several hundred people sacrificed their lives for Samyukta Maharashtra and hence it should remain undivided, there are some who believe Vidarbha has always been neglected.
	www.mid-day.com /news/city/2003/august/62058.htm (1049 words)

	SHOLAPUR, MAHARASHTRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Of the 15 million beedi workers, about 2.5 to 3 lakh are in Maharashtra alone, spread over in remote village areas in various parts of this state.
		The industry in Maharashtra is also in the grip of an unprecedented crisis as, according to the industry circles, there is a decline to the extent of 15 to 20 per cent in its turnover.
		The main reason for this is that the bureaucrats, who framed the act and the rules thereunder, are callous to the needs of beedi workers and to the problems of the century old industry.
	pd.cpim.org /2004/0815/08152004_prkrishnan.htm (1054 words)

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		All the 18 panchayat samitis and three zilla parishads are controlled by the Left Front.
		Senior Congress(I) leader Sharad Pawar chose Nandurbar for Sonia Gandhi's first rally in Maharashtra because the constituency is considered to be one of the citadels of the party.
		Meanwhile the Congress(I) in Maharashtra looks forward to Sonia Gandhi's scheduled tour of parts of Vidarbha, Marathwada and western Maharashtra on February 14 and 15 and her visit to Mumbai on February 22.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1504/15040300.htm (17685 words)

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