Telangana State
Andhra Pradesh State
Hyderabad State
Madras State
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The correct answer is: B) Andhra Pradesh State
The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 was an act of the Parliament of India that reorganized the states of India on linguistic lines. The act came into force on 1 November 1956.
The act led to the formation of 14 states and 6 union territories. The states were formed on the basis of the language spoken by the majority of the population in the state.
Andhra Pradesh was one of the states formed by the States Reorganisation Act of 1956. It was formed by merging the Telugu-speaking areas of the erstwhile Hyderabad State and Madras State.
The other states formed by the act were:
- Assam
- Bihar
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Nagaland
- Orissa
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Tamil Nadu
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- West Bengal
The union territories formed by the act were:
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Chandigarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Delhi
- Lakshadweep
- Pondicherry