The Origin Story of India's States

This book is only a primer to the story of the origin of Indian states. This is not some extensive scholarly work documenting the details of unification of Indian states. But the good thing is that it doesn't bore you with all the bureaucratic details which went into the creation of different states......more

It's very unlikely we get to know about the origin of each state and union territories of our nation with much details in our history classes unless the teacher wants to discuss something off topic and the students are enthusiastic enough to know history. It's a shame I never got the chance to know......more

A number of scholars had argued earlier that two of the most profound experiments which went miraculously right for India after Independence was its decision to bring in various stakeholders to draft a constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights, diversity, secularism, and plurality, and the implem......more

An Easy accessible book, which gives story of Modern States in India. I enjoyed understanding, diversity, different parts of India. Sadly, Growing up I was ignorant about rest of India. Ladakh looks lovely India can consider, Upgrading Infrastructure, and making it in-expensive. Imagine, "Kanya......more

The story of making of the Indian nation state is an interesting one. As the Britishers left there were three scenarios at hand, a separate country called Pakistan, another called India but within the geography of India there were multiple princely state which were given the choice to join either of......more