When Pakistan and India were created ... of the major Princely States to Pakistan – Kalat, Khairpur and Bahawalpur among others, without which a contiguous map of West Pakistan would not have ...

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 ...

Highlighting the visual heritage of princely states of that era, the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is organising Chitramahal under its arts research programme between Feb 23 and 28 from 11am ...

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. This mammoth task was taken up ...

Jaipur: Rajasthan's tryst with democratic governance began well before the princely states officially merged with the Union of India on March 30, 1949. In the years leading to the eventual merger ...