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The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858 , affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent .
India won World Cup for the first time, in one day international Cricket led by Kapil Dev. 1984: Troops storm Golden Temple, the Sikhs' most holy shrine, after Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale seeks refuge inside. There are a movement to flush out Sikh separatism and calls for secularism, called Operation Blue Star. "Anti-Sikh Riots 1984".
Part of a series on the History of India Timeline Prehistoric Paleolithic Masol c. 2.6 Ma Riwat c. 2.5 Ma Madrasian culture c. 1.5 Ma Soanian c. 500,000 BCE Neolithic, c. 7600 – c. 1000 BCE Bhirrana 7570 – 6200 BCE Jhusi 7106 BCE Lahuradewa 7000 BCE Koldihwa 7000 BCE Mehrgarh 7000 – 2600 BCE South Indian Neolithic 3000 – 1000 BCE Ancient Indus Valley Civilization, c. 3300 – c. 1700 ...
The following day, 15 August 1947, India, now Dominion of India, became an independent country, with official ceremonies taking place in New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru assuming the office of prime minister. Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for 10 months, serving as the first governor-general of an independent India until June 1948. [98]
Year Location Notes 1 Operation Peace 1948 Junagadh State: Annexation of Junagadh [1] [2] 2 Operation Polo: 1948 Hyderabad State: Indian armed forces ended the rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad and led to the incorporation of the princely state of Hyderabad in Southern India, into the Indian Union 3 Golden Temple Raid I: 1955 Punjab: To curb the ...
The empire is named after its capital city of Vijayanagara, whose ruins surround present day Hampi, now a World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India. [ 239 ] In the first two decades after the founding of the empire, Harihara I gained control over most of the area south of the Tungabhadra river and earned the title of Purvapaschima ...
From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999 (2004) Roy, Kaushik. The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India (2009) Sandhu, Gurcharn Singh. Military History of Medieval India (2003) Subramaniam, Arjun. India's Wars: A Military History, 1947–1971 (2017), 576 pages. ISBN 978-1-68247-241-5
Tryst with Destiny, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Independence Day Speech (1947) video by Indian National Congress " Tryst with Destiny " was an English-language speech by Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of India , to the Indian Constituent Assembly in the Parliament House , on the eve of India's Independence , towards midnight on 14 ...