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,...
Echoes of an Imperial Folly?
17 May 2025 9:58 PM ISTPerils of the Sinking Shores
17 May 2025 9:56 PM ISTCinematic Waves of Change
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Conan O'Brien joins 'Toy Story 5': Can't believe this
20 May 2025 11:44 AM ISTDenzel Washington receives Palme d’Or award at Cannes
20 May 2025 11:37 AM ISTIndian Army organises free medical camp to support civilians affected...
20 May 2025 11:00 AM ISTNoted astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar passes away at 87
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