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                                     INDEPENDENCE DAY 

India became independent on 15 August 1947. Every year this day is celebrated as Independence Day across India. This day is celebrated as a national holiday throughout the country. In many parts of the country, the tricolor flag is hoisted and sweets are distributed. The main ceremony of this celebration takes place at the Red Fort in Delhi. In this ceremony, the Prime Minister of India hoists the national flag and sings the national anthem of India "Jana Gana Mana" followed by an address to the nation. In this speech, the achievements of the country, major challenges facing the country will be discussed and some progress plans will be announced. On this day, the leaders who died for the independence of the country are remembered.

History of Indian Independence

European traders had established outposts in the Indian subcontinent by the end of the 17th century. Through overwhelming military power, the East India Company fought and conquered local kingdoms and established itself as a dominant power by the 18th century. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act of 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India. In the following decades, civil society gradually emerged across India, most notably the Indian National Congress Party formed in 1885.The post-World War I period was marked by colonial reforms such as the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms, but it was also marked by the passage of the unpopular Rowlatt Act and by Indian activists. Called for self-rule. The discontent of this period crystallized into nationwide non-violent movements of non-cooperation and civil disobedience under the leadership of Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi.

In the 1930s, the reform was gradually legislated by the British; Congress won the elections that followed.195–197 The next decade was marked by political turmoil: Indian participation in World War II, Congress's final push for non-cooperation, and the rise of Muslim nationalism led by the All India Muslim League. Rising political tensions were capped by independence in 1947. Colonialism was tempered by the bloody partition of India into India and Pakistan.

Independence Day before Independence

At the 1929 session of the Indian National Congress, the Purna Swaraj Declaration or "India's Declaration of Independence" was announced, and 26 January was declared as Independence Day in 1930. The Congress called upon the people to pledge themselves to civil disobedience and obey the instructions of the Congress from time to time until India achieved complete independence. Such an Independence Day celebration was intended to instill nationalism among the Indian citizens and force the British government to consider granting independence: Page 19  Congress celebrated 26 January as Independence Day between 1930 and 1946. . The celebration was marked by meetings where attendees took the "Freedom Pledge". Page 19–20 Jawaharlal Nehru in his autobiography described such meetings as peaceful, serious “without any speeches or sermons”. Apart from meetings, in doing some constructive work, or service to 'untouchables', or reunion of Hindus and Muslims, or prohibition work, or all these together”. After the actual independence in 1947, the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950; since then 26 January is celebrated as Republic Day.

Immediate background

In 1946, the Labor government in Britain, exhausted by the recently concluded World War II, realized that it did not have the mandate at home, the international support or the credibility of local powers to maintain control in an increasingly restive India. On 20 February 1947, Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that the British government would grant British India full independence by June 1948. -Declared that it would give governance

The new Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, advanced the date for the transfer of power, believing that the continuing dispute between the Congress and the Muslim League would lead to the fall of the interim government. He chose 15 August, the second anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, as the date for the transfer of power. The British government announced on 3 June 1947 that it accepted the idea of ​​dividing British India into two states; Successor governments would be granted dominion status and have an implicit right to secede from the British Commonwealth. The Parliament of the United Kingdom's Indian Independence Act 1947, partitioned British India into two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan (including present-day Bangladesh) with effect from 15 August 1947 and gave full legislative powers to the respective constituent assemblies of the new countries. The Act received Royal Assent on 18 July 1947.

The path to independence

On June 3, 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the then Governor General, announced the partition of the British Indian Empire into two nations, India and Pakistan. After this, India was declared an independent nation on August 15, 1947 under the Indian Independence Act, 1947. Later that midnight (12.15 PM) Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as the first Prime Minister of the country.