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,...
Perilous Pandemonium
26 July 2025 6:02 PMMicrocosm of Rahim’s Metaphoric Might
26 July 2025 5:59 PMTapping the Blue Giants
26 July 2025 5:54 PMGrace under Fire
26 July 2025 5:53 PMSounds of Silence
26 July 2025 5:51 PM
First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight in...
30 July 2025 7:20 AM'Your conduct does not inspire confidence, why did you appear before...
30 July 2025 7:00 AMTMC demands discussion on SIR in Parliament
30 July 2025 5:30 AMED searches in Rs 500 cr Chhattisgarh medical supply 'scam' case
30 July 2025 5:15 AMIndia reiterates support at UN for two-state solution to...
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