CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
Statehood day of Gujarat and Maharashtra – Observed on May 01
- May 1 comes as the establishment day for the state of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
- It was on this day in the year 1960 that the former state of Bombay was segregated on a linguistic basis and two states were formed — Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Gujarati, the official language of the state of Gujarat, comes as an Indo-Aryan language which emerged from local Prakrits and Sanskrit.
- Often named ‘Jewel of Western India’, Gujarat has been on the world map since ancient ages.
- Gujarat was authoritatively formed in the year 1960 after the impression for the state originated in the year 1928 in a magazine by the name Kumar.
- Freedom fighter and writer K M Munshi originally proposed a concept called Mahagujarat.
