Sunday 14 August 2016

TRUTH Behind 15th AUG 1947

1. Lord Mountbatten, the newly appointed Viceroy chose the date 15th of August, to correspond with the 2nd anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces, as per the information provided by his press secretary Campbell-Johnson. Lord Mountbatten however later revealed to veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, that the situation in India was slipping from his hands, and hence he decided to quit as soon as possible. The British originally agreed to give India her independence in 1948.

2. 15th August also marks the independence of three other nations - South Korea won its independence from Japan on 15th August 1945, Bahrain from UK in 1971 and Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.

3. Every year, independence day celebrations are officially carried out at the Red Fort, Delhi - a tradition that is believed to be followed since August 15th 1947. However, a research paper published by the Lok Sabha secretariat stated that the Prime Minister, Nehru unfurled the Indian flag and spoke from the Red Fort on 16th August 1947, not 15th August 1947.

4. Records state that, in 1947, if Pakistan hadn’t sent in their tribesmen to attack and conquer Jammu and Kashmir, the state would have eventually gone to Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten has been quoted, saying, “By sending its irregular troops into the state, Pakistan spoiled the whole thing.”

5. Pakistan was never given its complete share of cash balances of undivided India. The Arbitration Tribunal had allotted Rs 75 crore to Pakistan, however they were paid only Rs 20 crore. The Kashmir war in 1947-48 prompted the sudden stop of cash transfer between the two nations. 


6. The original preamble to the Indian Constitution described India as 'sovereign democratic republic.' During the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1976, the constitution was amended and the words 'socialist' and 'secular' were added to the preamble to the constitution.


7. We see various adoptions of the Indian national flag today. However, very few are aware of the fact that khadi or hand-spun cloth is the only material allowed to be used for the flag, and flying a flag made of any other material is punishable by law with imprisonment up to three years, besides a fine.

8.  In 1947, the price of 10 grams of gold was Rs 88.62.

9. The rupee rate in 1947 Re 1 = $1.

10. The parliament of the United Kingdom enacted the Indian Independence Act 1947 which basically partitioned India (creating an independent India and Pakistan). This act was approved by England on July 18, 1947.


11. At the time of independence there were 562 princely states in India. Out of those 560 of these states joined India and the remaining two (Hyderabad and Junagadh) were annexed by the Army.


12. The King of the Jammu and Kashmir princely state didn’t decide which side (Pakistan or India) to join by August 1947. But the Hindu Maharaja finally decided to join India in October 1947.

13. India – Pakistan border was drawn by a London lawyer, Sir Cyril Radcliffe.


14. India – Pakistan partition created inter-communal violence, which cost more than 1,000,000 lives. Around 3.5 million Hindus and Sikhs shifted from Pakistan to India and about 5 million Muslims migrated from India to Pakistan.

15. Few important freedom struggle milestone

    The Revolution of 1857
    The Civil Disobedience Movement of 1929
    The Dandi Maarch of 1930
    The Quit India Movement of 1942
The Quit India Movement of 1942

  The Dandi Maarch of 1930

The Revolution of 1857

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