Today (May 1), both Gujarat and Maharashtra celebrate their states’ creation. They were born out of the bilingual Bombay State, which failed to settle the tug-of-war between Gujaratis and Marathis over the city of Bombay.
Gujarat Formation Day, also known as Gujarat Sthapana Divas, is observed every year on May 1 to commemorate the separation of Gujarat from the then-Bombay state on linguistic grounds in 1960.