Note: Princely states within the “Central Province and Berar” (called “Chhattisgarh states”) are not marked on this map for clarity. After India achieved independence on August 15, ...

Join our Whatsapp channel MOST Pakistanis have never seen the map of Pakistan at independence: can you imagine a Pakistan without most of Balochistan, Bahawalpur division, Malakand division ...

A new book recounts how princely states were coaxed, coerced, or ... the political map of India as it began its first full year of independence still resembled the tessellated pavement that ...

These questions came into focus on Monday as the Supreme Court agreed to examine whether covenants signed between princely states and the Government of India before 1950 are amenable to judicial ...

After India's independence, several princely states, from Jammu Kashmir to Jodhpur, hesitated or outright refused to join the Indian Union. These decisions stirred political tensions and posed a ...

Consolidation of the many princely states. The idea that India would be a union of States after the departure of the British had been asserted by the Indian National Congress as early as the 1930s.

The records to be digitised include archival documents ranging from 1798 to 1956 that belonged to princely states like Gwalior, Bhopal, Indore, Rewa, Madhya Bharat State, and Narsinghgarh among ...

As far as the princely states are concerned, the history of independent India is full of inviolable safeguards being broken. On August 5, 2019, the Modi government of India stripped Jammu and ...