The story so far: On the “appointed day”, as Independence Day was referred to in the Indian Independence Act, 1947, British paramountcy lapsed in India, leading to the formation of two ...

India has lodged a diplomatic protest because the Chinese map, released annually by the government, shows a state in India’s far northeast as part of China.

One was India’s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China considers to be part of Tibet, and where the two countries fought a full-scale border war in 1962.