Independence Day (India)
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Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947. On this day the Indian Independence
The flag of India hoisted at the Red Fort in Delhi; hoisted flags are a common sight on Independence Day.
Jawaharlal Nehru delivering his speech, Tryst with Destiny, on the eve of India's first independence day.
Armed forces saluting the national flag
Parade on independence day
Dominion of India
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The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India, was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. Until its independence, In
Administrative divisions of India, 1949
Clement Attlee left with King George VI on the grounds of Buckingham Palace after Labour Party's victory in the general elections, 26 July 1945.
Lord Mountbatten swearing in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first prime minister of independent India on 15 August 1947
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, left, prime minister of Bengal (1946–1947) and later prime minister of Pakistan, and Mahatma Gandhi during their 73-hour fast in Calcutta to stop religious violence in the days after India's Independence Day