With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority ... of Jammu and Kashmir, a princely state that chose to ...

At the time of the Partition of India 70 ... were more than 500 Princely States. These were states nominally ruled by Indian Princes but ultimately under the control of the British colonial ...

He has also given brief accounts of the history and geography of the States alongside maps ... par with those of British India stamps. “This was why the stamps of the princely States were ...

Join our Whatsapp channel MOST Pakistanis have never seen the map of Pakistan ... the vast expanse of ‘Princely India’, which formed over one-third of the British Indian Empire and accounted ...

This patchwork of princely states coexisted alongside the British-administered Central ... say in the administration. Figure 1: Map of Central India (1941). Map created by Kriti Bhargava, Mehr ...

Toggle through the displayed options on the graphic below and draw lines on the map based on ... Upon independence, the British gave the princely states the option to join India or Pakistan ...