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Following its creation as a new country in August 1947, Pakistan applied for membership of the United Nations and was accepted by the General Assembly on 30 September 1947. The Dominion of India continued to have the existing seat as India had been a founding member of the United Nations since 1945. [105]
All opposition parties against the Junta were banned. Former ruling party National League for Democracy, which was overthrown by the military coup in 2021 formed National Unity Government with small minor parties, allied with Anti-government armed groups and revolted against the Junta caused the civil war.
India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia (2016). wide-ranging scholarly survey excerpt; Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence (1999) detailed scholarly history of 1940–47; Roy, Kaushik. "Military Loyalty in the Colonial Context: A Case Study of the Indian Army during World ...
Over the course of World War II, the United States assumed Britain's defense responsibilities in the Caribbean. In September 1940, the two countries agreed to the Lend-Lease Agreement (also called the Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement). It involved the loan of American destroyers in return for leasing, rent free for ninety-nine years, eleven naval ...
See list of political parties for a structured list by United Nations geoscheme (regions). Politics portal ... List of political parties in India;
A political party is an organized group that adheres to a specific ideology or revolves around particular issues, aiming to participate in political power, often through elections involvement. Individual parties are appropriately detailed in separate articles dedicated to each nation.
The Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party, winning 57 of the 102 elected seats. [3] The Muslim League won all Muslim constituencies, but failed to win any other seats. Of the 13 remaining seats, 8 went to Europeans, 3 to independents, and 2 to Akali candidates in the Sikh constituencies of Punjab . [ 4 ]
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the " Big Four " – the United Kingdom , United States , Soviet Union , and China .