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Advance Happy Independence Day to all friends and families.
Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947 the day when the provisions of the Indian Independence Act which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly came into effect. India retained King George VI as head of state until its transition to a republic when the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 and replaced the dominion prefix Dominion of India with the enactment of the sovereign law Constitution of India. India attained independence following the noted for largely non-violent resistance and civil disobedience.
History
Independence coincided with the partition of India, in which British India was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan; the partition was accompanied by violent riots and mass casualties, and the displacement of nearly 15 million people due to religious violence. On 15 August 1947, the first Prime Minister of India the Indian national flag above the Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi. On each subsequent Independence Day, the incumbent Prime Minister customarily raises the flag and gives an address to the nation the entire event is broadcast and broadcaster, and usually begins with the music of Bismillah Khan. Independence Day is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events. It is the Indian subcontinent by the late 17th century. Through overwhelming military strength, the East India Company fought and annexed local kingdoms and established themselves as the dominant force by the 18th century. Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led the British Crown to assume direct control of India. In the decades following, civic society gradually emerged across India, most notably the Indian National Congress Party, formed in 1885 after World War I was marked by colonial reforms such as the Chelmsford Reforms, but it also witnessed the enactment of the unpopular Act and calls for self-rule by Indian activists. The discontent of this period into nationwide non-violent movements of non-cooperation and civil disobedience, led by Mohandas Gandhi the 1929 session of the Indian National Congress, the declaration, or "Declaration of the Independence of India" was promulgated 26 January was declared as Independence Day in 1930 the Congress called on people to pledge themselves to civil disobedience and "to carry out the Congress instructions issued from time to time" until India attained complete independence of such an Independence Day was envisioned to stoke nationalistic among Indian citizens, and to force the British government to consider granting independence the Congress observed 26 January as the Independence Day between 1930 and 1946 the celebration was marked by meetings where the attendants took the pledge of independence described in his autobiography that such meetings were peaceful, solemn, and without any speeches or exhortation envisaged that besides the meetings, the day would be spent ... in doing some constructive work, whether it is spinning, or service of 'untouchables,' or reunion of Hindus or prohibition work, or even all these together. Actual independence in 1947, the Constitution of India came into effect on and from 26 January 1950; since 26 January is celebrated as Republic Day all, between 250,000 and 1,000,000 people on both sides of the new borders died in the violence the entire nation was celebrating the Independence Day, Gandhi stayed in Calcutta in an attempt to stem the carnage.
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