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 ...

The maharajas of the British princely states, spread across the map of India, from east to west and north to south, were as different as chalk and cheese – different religions, different ...

Princely states had 45 per cent of today’s India’s landmass. Without the princely states, the Indian map would look like a tattered cloth with huge holes in it.