Mapping the states of India - Page 2
Tricolour over the Islands
18 Dec 2021 5:54 PMEven 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 PMAfter 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 PMWith 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 PMOwing 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 PMStrategically 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 PMThe 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 PMWhile 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 PMImposition 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 PMThe 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 PMImmigration 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 PMAgainst 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 PMDemand 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 6:00 PMPrada’s Sandal Scandal
5 July 2025 5:56 PMCooperatives: The New Face of Rural India
5 July 2025 5:53 PMA Solution in Plain Sight
5 July 2025 5:50 PMEchoes of Melody & Melancholy
5 July 2025 5:49 PM
SC to hear on July 10 pleas against EC's decision to revise electoral...
7 July 2025 8:15 PMCal HC bars ‘tainted’ candidates from WBSSC fresh recruitment
7 July 2025 8:05 PMBJP unleashed ‘3-pronged assault on Bengal’, says TMC, cites NRC...
7 July 2025 8:03 PMIn a first, citizens will be able to self-enumerate
7 July 2025 7:50 PMChina protests to India over PM Modi’s greetings to Dalai Lama on his...
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