Bombay Citizens' Committee was an advocacy group which lobbied to keep Bombay city out of Maharashtra during the state reorganisation. The group was headed by a leading cotton industrialist Purshottamdas Thakurdas. J.R.D. Tata was one of the members and the committee was composed mostly of Gujarathis. The group submitted a 200 page application to States reorganisation committee in year 1954.
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“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
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