When the Treaty of Amritsar was signed in March eighteen forty-six, it did more than affirm the authority of Maharaja Gulab Singh. It gave form to a new political geography — a composite Himalayan state of remarkable scale and diversity. The new dominion of Jammu and Kashmir, spread across nearly two lakh twenty-two thousand square...
In the spring of eighteen forty-six, a treaty signed in the quiet corridors of Amritsar drew the first clear lines of what would become one of South Asia’s most complex regions — the modern state of Jammu and Kashmir. That agreement between the British East India Company and Maharaja Gulab Singh, the Dogra ruler of...
Even as India’s much delayed census for this decade has yet to take off, a UN agency has projected country’s population at 1.6 billion continuing to be the most populous in the world. The UNFPA’s 2025 State of World Population (SOWP) Report says that India’s total fertility rate has declined to 1.9 births per woman,...
India has said that Pakistan should stop blaming it for the breach of the Indus Water Treaty, as the unrelenting cross-border terrorism from its soil is interfering with the treaty’s implementation. Addressing the plenary session of the first UN conference on glaciers in Tajikistan’s Dushanbe on Friday, Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh...
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Saturday acknowledged losses of aircraft in recent hostilities with Pakistan but dismissed as “absolutely incorrect” Islamabad’s claim of downing six Indian jets. Chauhan, in an interview to Bloomberg TV, asserted it is more important to find out why the aircraft were lost so that the Indian military...
Scottish Parliament is one of the most beautiful legislative buildings I have ever seen. The interiors make extensive use of oak wood and sycamore. I visited the Parliament as part of study group from the London School of Economics in the autumn of 2023. The House was not in session on the day of our...