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Foreign investment and outsourcing of jobs to India's labor markets further enhanced India's economic growth. A large middle class has arisen across India, which has increased the demand, and thus the production of a wide array of consumer goods. Unemployment is steadily declining, and poverty has fallen to approximately 22%.
The All-India Jamhur Muslim League established by Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi to support a united India 8 August August Offer. [55] 1942: late March: Cripps Mission: August: 1. Quit India Movement 2. The Indian National Army is established by Subhas Chandra Bose. 1943: Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, the Provisional Government of Free India is formed by ...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (2008) excerpt and text search; Heimsath, Charles H. and Surjit Mansingh/ A Diplomatic History of Modern India (1971), an older standard scholarly history, 559pp online; Jain, B. M. Global Power: India's Foreign Policy, 1947–2006 (2009), comprehensive scholarly history. Kapur ...
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Freedom at Midnight (1975) is a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition.It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.
Hyderabad State was a state in Dominion and later Republic of India, formed after the accession of the State of Hyderabad into the Union on 17 September 1948. [1] It existed from 1948 to 1956. Hyderabad State comprised present day Telangana , Marathwada , and Hyderabad-Karnataka .
"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 August 1947. The speech spoke on the aspects that transcended Indian history.
After 1947, India signed new treaties with Nepal and Bhutan. [147] Historically, Sikkim was a British dependency, with a status similar to that of the other princely states, and was therefore considered to be within the frontiers of India in the colonial period. On independence, however, the Chogyal of Sikkim resisted full integration into ...