Manuscript Number : IJSRST18413881

India After Independence

Authors(1) :-Hasmot Ali

Freedom came to India on 15 August 1947 - a day that resonated with imperial pride rather than nationalist sentiment. In New Delhi, capital of the Raj and of free India, the formal event began shortly before midnight. Apparently, astrologers had decreed that 15 August was an inauspicious day. Thus it was decided to begin the celebrations on the 14th, with a special session of the Constituent Assembly, the body of representative Indian working towards a new constitution.

Authors and Affiliations

Hasmot Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fakiragram College, Fakiragram, Kokrajhar, Assam, India

  1. Ramchandra Guha, India After Gandhi : The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Picador, New Delhi, 2012, p.5
  2. Ibid
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru, Speeches, 5 Volumes, New Delhi, (hereafter referred to as Speeches), vol.1, p.25.
  4. Ibid., pp.25-6
  5. Nehru, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, General editor, S. Gopal, New Delhi, 1984, (hereafter referred to as Nehru, SW, S.S.). Vol.4, p.530
  6. W.H. Morris-Jones, The Government and Politics of India, Wistow (England), 1987 reprint, first published in 1964, p.72
  7. Nehru, LCM, Vol.4, p.366.
  8. Ibid., p.383.
  9. Quoted in V.P. Menon, Integration of the Indian States, Madras, 1985 reprint, first published in 1956, p.73.
  10. Ibid., p.91,
  11. Quoted in Norman D. Palmer, The Indian Political System, London. 1961, p. 88.
  12. Guha (2012), op.cit,  p.39
  13. Ibid, p.40
  14. V.P. Menon, op. cit., p. 94.

Publication Details

Published in : Volume 1 | Issue 1 | March-April 2015
Date of Publication : 2015-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 136-139
Manuscript Number : IJSRST18413881
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Hasmot Ali , " India After Independence", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.136-139, March-April-2015.
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