State Reorganisation Commission constituted by the Central Government of India in December 1953 to recommend the reorganisation of state boundaries on the basis of language, culture, ethnicity and geography. The State Reorganisation Act was passed in 1956 which results into the creation of 14 states and 6 union territories. Its most salient recommendation was the formation of linguistic states i.e. to reorganise states on the basis of accommodation of their languages to prepare a uniform base for the nation. Linguistic states changed the nature of democratic politics and leadership in some basic ways.