Fazl Ali

Sir Saiyid Fazl Ali, OBE (19 September 1886 – 22 August 1959) was an Indian judge, the governor of two Indian states (Assam and Odisha), and the head of the States Reorganisation Commission which determined the boundaries of several Indian states in December 1953.

The commission submitted its report in September 1953, broadly accepting language as the basis of reorganisation of states. Provided by Wikipedia