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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...