<P> Other small changes were made to state boundaries during the 1950 - 1956 period . The small state of Bilaspur was merged with Himachal Pradesh on 1 July 1954 , and Chandernagore , a former enclave of French India , was incorporated into West Bengal in 1955 . But post independence , the first state created on a linguistic basis was Andhra in 1953 , created out of the Telugu - speaking northern parts of Madras State . </P>
which was the first state in india to be created in linguistic basis post independence
Andhra