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The States Reorganization Commission (1953) was headed by:

Correct answer: (A) Fazal Ali.

The States Reorganisation Commission constituted in 1953 was headed by Justice Fazal Ali.

  1. (A)

    Fazal Ali

  2. (B)

    Sardar Patel

  3. (C)

    K.M. Panikkar

  4. (D)

    Jawaharlal Nehru

Explanation

The States Reorganisation Commission was set up by the Central Government of India in December 1953 to examine the reorganisation of state boundaries. Justice Fazal Ali, a retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, chaired the commission. Its other two members were H. N. Kunzru and K. M. Panikkar. This makes Fazal Ali the substantive answer, not merely a name associated with the commission. The point often appears in exams because the SRC marks the formal institutional step between post-Independence integration and the later legal reworking of state boundaries.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) Sardar Patel cannot be the answer because he had died in 1950, before the commission was constituted in 1953.
  • (C) K. M. Panikkar was connected with the commission, but as one of its members, not as its chairman.
  • (D) Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister, but the commission itself was chaired by Justice Fazal Ali.

Concept

This tests the post-Independence consolidation and reorganisation of Indian states. RAS repeatedly asks such facts because Rajasthan and India’s state formation processes are core modern-history themes.

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