Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti

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Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
Part of Chronology of statehood of Maharashtra States Reorganisation Act, 1956
Hutatma Chowk ("Martyr's Square") memorial to the Samyukta Maharashtra movement in Mumbai. The memorial was dedicated to members of the organisation killed by police during protests.
Date	8 August 1956 (1956-08-08) - 1 May 1960 (1960-05-01)
Location	Bombay state, India
Goals	The creation of the separate state of Maharashtra for Marathi-speaking people from the bilingual Bombay state
Methods	Protest march, Street protest, riot, hunger strike, strike
Status	Dormant
Parties
Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti Maha Gujarat Parishad Indian National Congress
Lead figures
Shripad Amrit Dange (President) T.R. Naravane (Vice President) S.M. Joshi (General Secretary)
Casualties
Death(s)	106
The Movement succeeded in creating a separate Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra including Mumbai and Nagpur as its capitals.

Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, (transl. United Maharashtra movement) commonly known as the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti, was an organisation in India that advocated for a separate Marathi-speaking state in Western India and Central India from 1956 to 1960.

The Samiti demanded the creation of a new state from Marathi-speaking areas of the State of Bombay, a Marathi state, with the city of Bombay as its capital.^[1] The Samiti achieved its goal when the state of Maharashtra was created as a Marathi linguistic state on 1 May 1960. Members continued to advocate for the inclusion of Marathi-speaking areas in northern Karnataka such as Belgaum, Karwar, Dharwad and Bidar into Maharashtra, and the newly annexed state of Goa and Damaon until the 1967 Goa Opinion Poll rejected merger with Maharashtra.