Mapping the states of India - Page 2
Tricolour over the Islands
18 Dec 2021 11:24 PM ISTEven 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 9:48 PM ISTAfter 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
5 Dec 2021 12:24 AM ISTWith its full-fledged management apparatus, led by Eurasians and sustained by incentivised ‘convict settlers’, Andaman Islands had developed a...
Downsized existence
28 Nov 2021 12:07 AM ISTOwing 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'
21 Nov 2021 12:44 AM ISTStrategically important and resource-rich Andaman Islands, confirmed for penal settlements by the British, received a major fillip post-1857...
Contested frontiers
14 Nov 2021 12:48 AM ISTThe 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 10:46 PM ISTWhile 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 10:58 PM ISTImposition 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
24 Oct 2021 1:36 AM ISTThe 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
17 Oct 2021 12:13 AM ISTImmigration 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 11:12 PM ISTAgainst 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
3 Oct 2021 1:18 AM ISTDemand for a hill state on account of discontent between highlanders and plainsmen, coupled with the British need to establish buffer at frontiers,...
The Great Growth Mirage
5 July 2025 11:30 PM ISTPrada’s Sandal Scandal
5 July 2025 11:26 PM ISTCooperatives: The New Face of Rural India
5 July 2025 11:23 PM ISTA Solution in Plain Sight
5 July 2025 11:20 PM ISTEchoes of Melody & Melancholy
5 July 2025 11:19 PM IST
TMC MP Mahua Moitra moves SC against EC's revision of electoral rolls...
6 July 2025 1:31 PM ISTChinese President Xi's move to share power fuels speculation about his...
6 July 2025 12:30 PM ISTSense and Sensibility
6 July 2025 12:07 PM ISTInterpretation of Constitution has to be pragmatic: CJI
6 July 2025 1:30 PM ISTAnticipatory bail should be granted in exceptional cases: Delhi HC
6 July 2025 11:22 AM IST