However, Jammu and Kashmir's bifurcation was not the biggest change we saw in the internal boundaries of India. The Indian map witnessed significant changes in 1956, when an official States ...

Pre-independence India consisted of state units, provinces and more than 550 scattered princely states. Nearly 114 of these, through the Instrument of Accession, had already joined India before ...

Of India’s then 29 states, it ranked 12th by population, 11th by area and 10th by per-person income. ... (see map). They shared a language, but the two had different histories, ...

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who was born on October 31, 1875, became India’s first Deputy Prime Minister on August 15, 1947, and was allocated the portfolios of home, information and broadcasting, and ...