Explanation: The integration of princely states with the rest of India has purely an ad hoc arrangement.

• There has been a demand from different regions, particularly South India, for reorganization of states on linguistic basis.
• Accordingly, in June 1948, the Government of India appointed the Linguistic Provinces Commission under the chairmanship of S.K. Dhar to examine the feasibility of this.

Source: Laxmikanth’s Polity