State · 1947 – 1960
Bombay State
A state of 1947 – 1960 — 13 years in South Asia. It replaced Hyderabad State (1948–1956), Deccan States Agency and Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency and 1 more. It was replaced by Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra and 1 more. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 13 years
- 1947 – 1960
- Rulers
- 4
- the head of state
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Deccan States Agency · replaces
- Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency · replaces
- Hyderabad State (1948–1956) · replaces · 1948 – 1956
- Bombay Presidency · replaces
After it
- Gujarat · replaced by
- Karnataka · replaced by
- Maharashtra · replaced by
- Rajasthan · replaced by
How it ended, as its article says
Dissolved, 1960-05-01. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
On 1 May 1960, Bombay State was dissolved and split on linguistic lines into the two states of Gujarat, with the Gujarati speaking population and Maharashtra, with Marathi speaking population.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raja Maharaj Singh | 1950 – 1952 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Girija Shankar Bajpai | 1952 – 1954 | 2 years | ending not on record | |
| Harekrushna Mahatab | 1955 – 1956 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Sri Prakasa | 1956 – 1960 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1950 – 1960. Only 10 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Morarji Desai | 1952 – 1956 |
| Yashwantrao Chavan | 1956 – 1960 |
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedEmblem of Bombay State · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
2 rows, over a span too long to list by century.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood13 years
stood longer than 19% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1937 – 1970, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1954, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2627082 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.