Even as a merger with Pakistan was ruled out, and Hari Singh expressed willingness to accede to India, there was a considerable delay which cost India...

While Jinnah’s bid for Muslim support was contested by Abdullah’s secular image, he also found little success in tempting Maharaja on his side who was...

The legitimacy of the exploitative Dogra dynasty — set up with the ‘purchase’ of the ‘kingdom’— was finally questioned by Sheikh Abdullah who would...

The diverse discourse around Jammu and Kashmir is historically deep-rooted and had many parallels along the nature and conduct of contemporary...

As Hyderabad ceased to exist as a state and its Telugu-speaking region was merged with Andhra against SRC’s recommendation, grounds for separate...

Nehru’s backtracking from forming Andhra on linguistic grounds, discussed in the first part, had its own reasons but a series of hunger strikes...

Congress’ departure from its historical stand of organising Madras on linguistic grounds fuelled discontent among Telugu-speaking people

Owing to its vast expanse, the proposals for three-state division of UP were floated initially; addition of the fourth in 2011 further layered the...

Nizam’s Firmans represented just one aspect; a whole lot of diverse factors including language, religion, ideology and quest for power were shaping...

Eventually, the possibility of accession to Pakistan was ruled out, and what rolled out was an ineffective Standstill Agreement that paved the way...

In the first of the two-part series, we discuss how despite having a stronghold over the Muslim faction, the Nizam’s proposal of joining Pakistan was...

Indore and Gwalior conceded, rather reluctantly, to merge into a single union despite having a hostile history towards each other