Except for a brief period between 1952 and 1956, capital ‘New Delhi’ remained bereft of legislative assembly or council in its initial three decades —...

During the Mughal rule, under the Marathas, as part of the NWP and British Punjab, and as a Chief Commissioner’s province later — Delhi always...

Ages changed, and so did the rulers, but Indraprastha, believed to be founded in the Mahabharata period, managed to retain its relevance all...

Demographically diverse and strategically crucial Andaman & Nicobar Islands are teeming with profound resources — exploitation of which remains widely...

Even after the official handover of the islands to the INA, Japanese — who had occupied those from the British — were known to have inflicted...

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...