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Seven Decades Of Independent India: A Quick Flashback
Independence Day, India@70, 15th August, Mahatma Gandhi
Quit India Movement: Mahatma Gandhi's 'Do or Die' Call
In 1942, in a fiery speech in Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi gave a 'do or die' call to the people of India in a final push to make the British quit. Following the start of Quit India Movement, many Congress leaders including Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were jailed for sedition along with Mahatma Gandhi.
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August 12, 2016 5:57
"At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to light and freedom," was famously said by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, to the country's constituent assembly and millions of radio listeners on the eve of India's independence in August 1947.
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August 12, 2016 0:50
As India turns 70 this Independence Day, we bring to you the colours of celebrations across the country.
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August 12, 2016 0:30
Over half a million people were killed in hostile clashes in both India and Pakistan after Cyril Radcliffe drew the lines on the map to divide British India. The religious exodus was the biggest mass migration in human history.
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August 12, 2016 0:30
Lord Mountbatten was the last India's viceroy and was the architect behind the partition of India and Pakistan. He was the last British representative before India's Independence Act was passed and the power was shifted.
