The linguistic states were created with the aim of settling people, who speak the same language, to live in the same state. These states were created.
- Many old states had vanished and many new states had been created.
- Areas, boundaries and names of the states had been changed.
- In 1947, the boundaries of several old states of India were changed in order to create new- states.
- This was done to ensure that people who spoke the same language lived in the same state.
