The Survey of India (SoI), India’s 250-year-old map maker, while no longer having a monopoly on making high resolution maps, will remain the arbiter of maps that deal with State borders and ...

India’s new triangular parliament building ... protested but are now happy to accept the explanation that the map was a historical one. Indians will have the chance to judge for themselves ...

India thus undertook the bold and risky project of reorganising state boundaries along linguistic lines (see map 7), both to give diverse peoples a sense of autonomy among their own kind and to ...

India now has 28 States and eight Union Territories .But that was not the case when the country became independent in 1947 Over 75 years, the Indian map has undergone several changes.