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...

Owing to the ‘market policy’ of the penal colony, and superior treatment given to the ‘royal’ Eurasian and European prisoners, indigenous convicts...

Strategically important and resource-rich Andaman Islands, confirmed for penal settlements by the British, received a major fillip post-1857...

The Assam-Mizoram land conflict is an outgrowth of two conflicting notions on boundary — demarcations shaped by natural factors and compartmentalised...

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...

Imposition of Assamese language throughout the region proved to be the trigger point for a transition from the longstanding demand for an effective...

The sophisticated road to the formation of Manipur state in 1972 had been made challenging on account of faulty interpretation of the Indian...

Immigration of politically conscious Bengalis into Tripura after the independence through India’s ‘most porous’ border, and then the exodus of Chakmas...

Against SRC’s argument of having united frontiers, demands for autonomy by moderate faction of Nagas culminated into carving out of Nagaland from...

Demand for a hill state on account of discontent between highlanders and plainsmen, coupled with the British need to establish buffer at frontiers,...

The migration trend from Eastern Bengal to lower Assam, set by 1905 Partition, acquired religious colour on account of politics and, as 'integration'...

During the late 19th century, the Assam frontier had several geographical additions and the region underwent demographic transformation with...