Dhar Commission

• For reorganization of states on linguistic basis. Accordingly, in June 1948, the Government of India appointed the Linguistic Provinces Commission under the chairmanship of S.K. Dhar to examine the feasibility.
• The commission submitted its report in December, 1948, and recommended the reorganization of states on the basis of administrative convenience rather than linguistic factor.

JVP Committee

• It consisted of Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallahbhai Patel and Pattabhi Sitaramayya and hence, was popularly known as JVP Committee.
• Constituted in December 1948; submitted its report in April, 1949, and formally rejected language as the basis for reorganization of states
• However, in October, 1953, the Government of India was forced to create the first linguistic state, known as Andhra state, by separating the Telugu speaking areas from the Madras state.

Fazl Ali Commission

• December, 1953 a three member States Reorganization Commission under the chairmanship of Fazl Ali. Its other two members were K.M. Panikkar and H.N. Kunzru
• submitted its report in September 1955 and broadly accepted language as the basis of reorganization of states
• it rejected the theory of ‘one language-one state’
• commission suggested the abolition of the four-fold classification of states and territories