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Mapping the states of India - Page 2

Tricolour over the Islands

18 Dec 2021 5:54 PM GMT
Even after the official handover of the islands to the INA, Japanese — who had occupied those from the British — were known to have inflicted...

Nancowry and the copra traders

11 Dec 2021 4:18 PM GMT
After the Danish failed to settle in Nicobar, the islands eventually went to the British who would turn Nancowry into a trade hotspot — allowing copra...

The jail economy

4 Dec 2021 6:54 PM GMT
With its full-fledged management apparatus, led by Eurasians and sustained by incentivised ‘convict settlers’, Andaman Islands had developed a...

Downsized existence

27 Nov 2021 6:37 PM GMT
Owing to the ‘market policy’ of the penal colony, and superior treatment given to the ‘royal’ Eurasian and European prisoners, indigenous convicts...

An island for 'convicts'

20 Nov 2021 7:14 PM GMT
Strategically important and resource-rich Andaman Islands, confirmed for penal settlements by the British, received a major fillip post-1857...

Contested frontiers

13 Nov 2021 7:18 PM GMT
The Assam-Mizoram land conflict is an outgrowth of two conflicting notions on boundary — demarcations shaped by natural factors and compartmentalised...

Insurgency to integration

6 Nov 2021 5:16 PM GMT
While the Mizo Union wanted a separate state from Assam within India and the MNF took to violent means for a sovereign state, the eventual outcome was...

A reformulated demand

30 Oct 2021 5:28 PM GMT
Imposition of Assamese language throughout the region proved to be the trigger point for a transition from the longstanding demand for an effective...

A bumpy path to statehood

23 Oct 2021 8:06 PM GMT
The sophisticated road to the formation of Manipur state in 1972 had been made challenging on account of faulty interpretation of the Indian...

Tripura's tribal identities

16 Oct 2021 6:43 PM GMT
Immigration of politically conscious Bengalis into Tripura after the independence through India’s ‘most porous’ border, and then the exodus of Chakmas...

Through political settlement

9 Oct 2021 5:42 PM GMT
Against SRC’s argument of having united frontiers, demands for autonomy by moderate faction of Nagas culminated into carving out of Nagaland from...

Disintegration of Assam

2 Oct 2021 7:48 PM GMT
Demand for a hill state on account of discontent between highlanders and plainsmen, coupled with the British need to establish buffer at frontiers,...
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