States & Union Territories

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a Union Territory of India, constituted on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, comprising an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal administered directly by the Union through a Lieutenant Governor.

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is a state of the Indian Union, first formed on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act as the country's first state constituted on linguistic lines, and reconstituted on 2 June 2014 when the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 carved Telangana out of it.

Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is India's largest north-eastern state by area and its least densely populated, governed by a 60-member unicameral legislature at Itanagar and represented in the Union Parliament by two Lok Sabha and one Rajya Sabha seat.

Assam

Assam is a constituent state of the Indian Union, recognised as a state when the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, and the residual territory left after Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram were carved out of it between 1963 and 1972.

Bihar

Bihar is a state of the Indian Union in the eastern Gangetic plain, constituted as a province on 22 March 1912 and reduced to its present boundaries on 15 November 2000 when eighteen southern districts were separated to form Jharkhand.

Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a Union Territory of the Indian Republic, constituted on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, on the same appointed day that Haryana was carved out of Punjab.

Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is a state of the Indian Union carved out of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000 by the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000, becoming the Republic's 26th state.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a Union Territory of India formed on 26 January 2020 by merging two previously separate Union Territories, both of them former Portuguese possessions taken into the Republic in the early 1960s.

Delhi (NCT)

Delhi is the National Capital Territory of India — a Union Territory that the Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991 gave a directly elected Legislative Assembly and a Council of Ministers, making it the only capital in the Republic where a state-style elected government and the Union administer the same ground.

Goa

Goa is the smallest Indian state by area and among the smallest by population, admitted as the Republic's 25th state on 30 May 1987 after twenty-five years as a Union Territory formed out of territory taken from Portuguese rule in December 1961.

Gujarat

Gujarat is a state of the Indian Union formed on 1 May 1960, when the Bombay Reorganisation Act split the former Bombay State along linguistic lines into Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Haryana

Haryana is a north Indian state carved out of Punjab on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, created along linguistic lines from the former state's Hindi-speaking southern districts.

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh is a state in the Indian Union, formed as a Chief Commissioner's Province on 15 April 1948 by integrating some thirty princely hill states, made a Union Territory in 1956, and admitted as India's eighteenth state on 25 January 1971 under the State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970.

Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is a Union Territory with a legislature, created on 31 October 2019 when the former state of that name was reorganised by Act of Parliament and Ladakh was carved out as a separate, legislature-less UT.

Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state of the Indian Union created on 15 November 2000 under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, when eighteen districts of southern Bihar were constituted as a separate state with Ranchi as capital and Dumka as sub-capital.

Karnataka

Karnataka is a southern Indian state formed on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, which unified Kannada-speaking territories drawn from the princely state of Mysore, the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, Hyderabad State and Coorg; it was renamed from Mysore State to Karnataka in 1973.

Kerala

Kerala is a state on India's south-western coast, formed on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act by merging the Malayalam-speaking territories of Travancore-Cochin with the Malabar district and Kasaragod.

Ladakh

Ladakh is a Union Territory of the Republic of India, carved out of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir on 31 October 2019 by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.

Lakshadweep

Lakshadweep is a union territory of India, constituted in 1956 as the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands and renamed Lakshadweep in 1973.

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh is a state of the Indian Union formed on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, assembled from Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, Bhopal State and the Sironj subdivision, with Bhopal as its capital.

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is the Marathi-speaking state formed on 1 May 1960 when the Bombay Reorganisation Act split bilingual Bombay State into Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Manipur

Manipur is a state of the Indian Union in the north-east, formed as a full state on 21 January 1972 under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, after passing through Part C state and Union Territory status following its 1949 merger with India.

Meghalaya

Meghalaya is a state of the Indian Union carved out of Assam, first as an autonomous state in April 1970 and then as a full state on 21 January 1972 under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971.

Mizoram

Mizoram is a state of the Indian Union in the north-east, carved out of Assam as a Union Territory in 1972 and elevated to full statehood on 20 February 1987 as the Republic's 23rd state under the terms of the 1986 Mizoram Peace Accord.

Nagaland

Nagaland is a state of the Indian Union formed on 1 December 1963 under the State of Nagaland Act, 1962, carved out of Assam's Naga Hills district and the Tuensang Frontier Division.

Odisha

Odisha is a state on India's eastern seaboard, constituted on 1 April 1936 as the first province of British India carved out on a linguistic basis, and continued as a state of the Republic after 1947.

Puducherry

Puducherry is a union territory with a legislature, constituted on 1 July 1963 out of the former French establishments of Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé and Yanam after their de facto transfer to India in 1954 and de jure cession in 1962.

Punjab

Punjab is a border state of the Indian Union, constituted in its present form on 1 November 1966 when the Punjab Reorganisation Act split the earlier state into a Punjabi-speaking Punjab, a new state of Haryana, hill areas transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh as a Union Territory.

Rajasthan

Rajasthan is the largest Indian state by area and a border state of the Republic, assembled in seven stages between 1948 and 1956 out of the princely states of the Rajputana Agency and given its present boundaries by the States Reorganisation Act on 1 November 1956.

Sikkim

Sikkim is the Himalayan state that joined the Indian Union on 16 May 1975 as its 22nd state, the only constituent unit of the Republic formed by absorbing a protected monarchy rather than by carving up an existing province.

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is a state of the Indian Union, reconstituted on linguistic lines on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act and renamed from Madras State to Tamil Nadu on 14 January 1969.

Telangana

Telangana is the 29th state of the Indian Union, formed on 2 June 2014 when the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 split the Telugu-speaking territory of united Andhra Pradesh into two states.

Tripura

Tripura is a state of the Indian Union in the north-east, formed as a full state on 21 January 1972 under the North-Eastern Areas Reorganisation Act, 1971, after passing from princely state to Part C state to union territory in the first quarter-century of the Republic.

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of the Indian Republic and the single largest bloc in its Parliament, formed on 26 January 1950 when the United Provinces were renamed under the new Constitution.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand is the Republic's 27th state, carved out of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000 as Uttaranchal and renamed in 2007.

West Bengal

West Bengal is an eastern state of the Indian Union, constituted on 15 August 1947 when the province of Bengal was partitioned and its Hindu-majority western districts remained in India.