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Purva Pradesh
Purva
Pradesh
was a
proposed
merger
of the
Indian states
of
West Bengal
and
Bihar
. The
proposal
was
promoted
by the
States Reorganisation Commission
in
1955
and led to widespread
protests
. It was
scrapped
following the
enactment
of the
States Reorganisation Act, 1956
.