The Bombay State was a state of India, dissolved with the formation of Maharashtra and Gujarat states on May 1, 1960.
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“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)