The constitution of the States Reorganisation Commission, with FazliAli as Chairperson, and K.M. Panikkar and R.N. Husrau as members.

1) The demand for linguistic reorganisation of states did not stop.
2) The issue gained centre-stage with Pattabhi Sitaramayya's election as the Congress President at the Jaipur session.
3) A resolution there led to the constitution of a committee with Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Pattabhi Sitaramayya and Jawaharlal Nehru also called the JVP committee.

This process and the commitment of the leaders of independent India to the concerns of the people of Kashmir led the Constituent Assembly to provide for autonomous status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.

Indians shall make their own constitution was laid down by Gandhi as early as in 1922. Elections were held, based on the 1935 Act, to the Provincial Assemblies in August 1946. These elected assemblies in turn were to elect the Central Assembly, which would also become the Constituent Assembly.

(i) The task of integrating the Princely States into the Indian Union is known as Instrument of Accession.
(ii) Instrument of Accession: A legal document, introduced in Government of India Act, 1935, which was later used in the context of Partition enabling Indian rulers to accede their state to either India or Pakistan.