On June 3, 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced the partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan. With the speedy passage through the British Parliament of the Indian Independence Act 1947, at 11:57 on August 14, 1947 Pakistan was dec...
Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Indian Empire n (Placename) British India and the Indian states under indirect British control, which gained independence as India and Pakistan in 1947 Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991...
Bharat, India, Republic of India - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Pakistan, West Pakistan - a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of anci...
What an experience it would be to step upon the hallowed ground where America gained her independence. Captain Ed stands reading the Yorktown Victory Monument commemorating the 1781 victory and alliance with France that brought about an end to the American Revolutionary War. A discussion with ...
“As the Congress began to demand immediate independence, the Viceroy took to reassuring Jinnah that Muslim interests would be safeguarded in any constitutional change. Within a few months, he was urging the League to declare a constructive policy for the future, which was of course presented in...
Indeed if you ask me this has been the biggest hindrance in the way of India to attain its freedom and independence and but for this we would have been free peoples long long ago. No power can hold another nation, and specially a nation of 400 million souls in subjection; nobody could...
although that was lost upon independence to the religious division between India and Pakistan. The Moghuls and British, of course, called India by its name in their own languages -- i.e. "Hindustān,"हिन्दुस्तान,हिंदुस्तान(with "n"...
the British gave clear indications that power would be transferred to Indian hands. With the speedy passage through the British Parliament of the Indian Independence Act 1947, Pakistan and India became two separate sovereign states. As a rule, Gandhi was opposed to the concept of partition as it...
On June 3, 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced the partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan. With the speedy passage through the British Parliament of the Indian Independence Act 1947, at 11:57 on August 14, 1947 Pakistan was dec...
Modern Pakistanis had never felt they subscribed to the Indian nationalist movement culminating in independence in August 1947. The Pakistani state now finally declared its independence in the world by exploding bombs in a nuclear arsenal secretly created with help purchased from China and North Korea...