The Legislative Council of the Central Provinces in British India was established on 8th November 1913. The Council continued for Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. The Central Provinces Legislative Council continued for the Governor of the Central Provinces between the period 1920 and 1936. Later, after the year 1936, the Legislative Assembly of Central Provinces and Berar was created. The territory became the new province of Central Provinces and Berar on 24th October 1936. After the country achieved independence and the withdrawal of the British Government of India on 15th August 1947, several former princely state of India were merged with the Central Provinces and Berar province. After the new Constitution of India went into effect in the year 1950, the erstwhile Central Provinces formed the new Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, which had Nagpur as its capital. In the year 1956, some of the regions of Madhya Pradesh, which included the Berar and Nagpur divisions, were incorporated as a part of Bombay state. In 1960, the Bombay state was restructured, with the Gujarati-speaking regions becoming Gujarat and the Marathi-speaking regions forming Maharashtra. Later in the year 2000, the eastern part of the state of Madhya Pradesh was segregated in order to from the new Indian state of Chhattisgarh. |