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.

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 ...

Sixty years ago, the internal map of India shifted more significantly ... Demands for linguistic states were old. The British carved Orissa for Oriya speakers from Bihar and Bengal in 1936.