Four Member Committee
Following a memorandum from the Maharashtra government on 23 June 1957, the Government of India constituted Mahajan Committee on 5 June 1960 to look into the case. The four member Committee consisted of two representatives from the Maharashtra Government, and two from the Mysore state Government. But it failed to reach an agreement. Maharashtra wanted to apply following points and agreed to hand over Kannada majority villages to Mysore:
- Villages as a unit
- Geographical proximity/integrity
- Marathi or Kannada speakers "relative majority"; in case of villages with no population, it should be merged with that state where the owners of that land reside
- People's wish
Mysore Government, on the other hand, wanted status quo to be maintained.
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