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 | | 1947 - India became an independent nation with a Hindu majority at midnight August 15, and Pakistan with a Muslim majority was partitioned east and west. |
 | | The Hindu maharaja of the state of Jammu and Kashmir had refused to to join either India or Pakistan, but when attacked by West Pakistan Muslims, decided in October to join India, causing the first India-Pakistan war 1947-48, ended by a United Nations-sponsored cease-fire Jan. 1, 1949, with 30% of Kashmir under Pakistan control. |
 | | India agreed that any plutonium from power reactors will not be used for atomic weapons, but India does not sign the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, and with the help of France builds and tests its first atomic bomb in 1974. |
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