Border Dispute
With the passage of the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, which reorganised India's states along linguistic lines, Belgaum was incorporated into the newly formed Mysore state (now Karnataka), despite the high proportion of Marathi speakers, who accounted for about three quarters of the total population at the time. Since then, Maharashtra has continued to claim the district, and the case is now in Supreme Court of India.
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