Central Organisation of Indiaappointed the States ReorganisationCommission on December 22, 1953to recommend the reorganisation ofstate boundaries. One of the mostpopular demands was for states to bereorganised based on languages, inorder to make administration easierand to replace contentious caste andreligion-based identities with lesscontentious linguistic identities. HNKunzru, Fazal Ali, and KM Panikkarserved on the State ReorganisationCommission.