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Indian Independence

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  • Rule of the British Crown

    After a failed Indian uprising, India comes under direct rule of the British crown.

  • Indian National Congress is founded

    The Indian National Congress is founded and functions as forum for emerging nationalist feeling.

  • Anti-British campaign

    The nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi launches anti-British civil disobedience campaigns.

  • The partition is planned

    The prominent Indian leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Abul Kalam Azad, Master Tara Singh and B. R. Ambedkar agree for a partition of India along religious outline.

  • Independence

    On the 15th of August 1947, the British rulers handed the country back to its Indian leaders. It was also on this date that the first Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfolded the tricolour flag of the nation on the glorious Red Fort.

  • War over Kashmir

    India and Pakistan fight over Kashmir. This fight ends after U.N. calls for ceasefire.