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	Independence of India,History of Indian Independence,History of Independence India
		This drove him to capture Goa on the west coast of India in 1510, Melaka (Malacca) on the Malay peninsula in 1511, Hormuz at the opening of the Persian Gulf in 1515, Bassein in 1534, Daman and Diu in 1535 and Colombo in 1597.
		As the Portuguese Viceroy in India, Albuquerque encouraged mixed marriages with the intent of procuring fresh recruits, especially in the form of offsprings, to serve the Portuguese project in India and elsewhere.
		India was significant only insofar as it constituted part of the great Asian trade route that the Dutch had developed and that cut through Ceylon and Cape Town.
	voice.indiasite.com /independence.html (5294 words)

	India - The Independence Movement
		By 1900, although the Congress had emerged as an all-India political organization, its achievement was undermined by its singular failure to attract Muslims, who had by then begun to realize their inadequate education and underrepresentation in government service.
		The All-India Muslim League (Muslim League--see Glossary) was founded the same year to promote loyalty to the British and to advance Muslim political rights, which the British recognized by increasing the number of elective offices reserved for Muslims in the India Councils Act of 1909.
		1910-36) visited India for a durbar (a traditional court held for subjects to express fealty to their ruler), during which he announced the reversal of the partition of Bengal and the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to a newly planned city to be built immediately south of Delhi, which became New Delhi.
	countrystudies.us /india/19.htm (1177 words)

	Crowley on 54th anniversary of India's independence
		India is the world's largest democracy, and in the next fifty years it will become the worlds most populous nation.
		As we celebrate India's independence it is important for us to reflect on the achievements of the previous 54 years while at the time looking forward to the future.
		India is of immense strategic importance to the United States.
	www.usindiafriendship.net /congress1/crowley/crowley.htm (505 words)

	Indian Independence Day, Independence Day Of India, Celebrations Of Independence Day, National Festivals Of India, ...
		Independence was also the end of nearly a century of struggle for freedom, battles, betrayals and sacrifices.
		Independence Day is an occasion to rejoice in our freedom and to pay collective homage to all those people who sacrificed their lives to the cause.
		Independence Day, beginning as a day to commemorate the greatest moment in Indian history, has now come to signify a feeling of nationalism, solidarity and celebration.
	festivals.iloveindia.com /independence-day/index.html (965 words)

	india.independence.html
		It is significant that India, as the World's coming leading nation in many different fields (one example: Bill Gates has chosen India to manufacture all the Microsoft software from 1999 on), has such a remarkably spiritual background even at her Independence Day.
		India's internal development and prosperity may be impeded, her position among the nations weakened, her destiny impaired or even frustrated.
		There India has her part to play and has begun to play it with an energy and ability which already indicate the measure of her possibilities and the place she can take in the council of the nations.
	www.planetwork.org /india.independence.html (1463 words)

	India since independence
		India is the largest democracy in the world.
		Before its independence, India was never a single country but a bunch of different entities.
		India also had a few wars with its neighbors on border issues.
	adaniel.tripod.com /politicalissues.htm (296 words)

	Independence Day of India - 15th August is celebrated as Independence Day of India.
		Under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, India and Pakistan were established as independent dominions with predominantly Hindu areas allocated to India and predominantly Muslim areas to Pakistan.
		fter India's independence on August 15, 1947, India received most of the subcontinent's 562 widely scattered polities, or princely states, as well as the majority of the British provinces, and parts of three of the remaining provinces.
		Pakistan consisted of a western wing, with the approximate boundaries of modern Pakistan, and an eastern wing, with the boundaries of present-day Bangladesh.
	festivals.tajonline.com /independence-day.php (507 words)

	India Gains Independence, Pakistan Created
		At the stroke of midnight at the beginning of today, India became an independent state, putting an end to the long struggle, most intense these last 30 years, for freedom from rule by the British government.
		It was the "Quit India" movement began by Gandhi in August, 1942 which galvanized the populist feeling against rule from London.
		Gandhi is not taking part in any of the independence celebrations today as he is disappointed at the two-state conclusion to the process.
	www.dailypast.com /asia/india-independent.shtml (988 words)

	Fight for Independence
		With the help of Mohandas Gandhi, India was freed of the rule of the dominating United Kingdom, and given independence in 1947.
		Gandhi’s spinning wheel is the symbol of India’s struggle for independence and that symbol is on the flag (Bourke-White 1).
		The citizens of India and Gandhi were fearless enough to fight the British.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/India/02/bavishi/bavishi.htm (1089 words)

	S. Gurumurthy - Intellectual Scene in Post-Independence India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The All India Muslim League took up the case, went to the British and told them that this finding is dangerous to Islam and requested them to pass a law which will overrule this judgement; the British Govt.
		This is the extent of the intellectual gap in India.
		He concedes that they were prosperous, that they organised their affairs well, they have a measure of independence, they have a democracy at the lowest level, all this has been conceded.
	www.vijayv.org /wwwvijayvorg/Articles/IntScenePostIndIndia.php (5068 words)

	India Since Independence
		India is the world’s largest democracy, but it is a difficult nation to govern.
		Gandhi believed that once the subcontinent achieved independence, the Indian people should go back to their traditional way of life.
		Since the nations now have the power to destroy one another, they may come to the conclusion that settling their disputes by force is no longer an option.
	www.mrdowling.com /612-independence.html (369 words)

	CNN - India, Pakistan mark independence as Kashmir dispute lingers - August 15, 1999
		NEW DELHI, India -- India and Pakistan marked their 52nd anniversaries as independent nations Sunday with little hope that their ongoing dispute over Kashmir would be resolved soon.
		India's May offensive to flush out the rebels from its Kargil heights nearly triggered a fourth Indo-Pakistani war, and the region remains the source of bitter conflict between the world's newest nuclear powers.
		The rocket, which India tested in April, is believed capable of hitting targets deep inside both Pakistan and China.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9908/15/india.pakistan/index.html (606 words)

	India, Celebrating 50 Years of Independence
		Independence came with the Partition of India and Pakistan.
		India is now the second largest Democratic Country in the World after the United States, and is proud to be 50 Years Old in Independence, leading the way in many fields of Science, Technology, Mathematics, Commerce, Trade and many others.
		India is such a vast country and only a little percentage of her beauty, culture, people can be written about on such a little space.
	www.children-of-bangalore.com /india.htm (3258 words)

	Independence Day (India) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		India's Independence Day (Swatantrata Divas) is celebrated on August 15th to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947.
		On 3 June 1947, Viscount Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced the partitioning of the British Indian Empire into an India and Pakistan, under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act 1947.
		Throughout varying regions of India, there is a popular tradition of flying kites on the Independence Day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independence_Day_(India) (968 words)

	Subhas Chandra Bose & India's Independence
		India could be held by force of arms for a few years more, but the cost for a Britain devastated by war would be too high.
		When the British left, India had little or no industrial capacity; now she is the tenth industrial power in the world, exporting machinery to the West and capable of producing her own nuclear weapons.
		Like all national-liberation movements, the independent Congress was a coalition: of business seeking to oust British capital, of rural kulaks confident that native rulers would do more for them than alien ones, of various interest groups and of socialists aware that the Congress was the only party capable of furthering their ideas.
	www.tamilnation.org /ideology/bose.htm (8144 words)

	USATODAY.com - 15 killed in blast at Independence Day parade in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		NEW DELHI (AP) — A bomb exploded during an Independence Day parade in India's remote northeast Sunday, killing at least 15 people, including schoolchildren, while a rocket attack during a celebration at a school in the separatist region of Kashmir injured 17, officials said.
		When the rocket hit, children had gathered to watch an Independence Day ceremony organized by the Indian army at a school in Dangiwachi village, some 45 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state.
		India accuses Pakistan of training and arming the Islamic militants, a charge Pakistan denies.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-08-15-india-blast_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA (672 words)

	2006 India Independence Day, Quotes, E-Cards, History, Parades, Festivals
		The state of India formally gained independence on August 15, 1947 after centuries of British rule - and years of turmoil - and today continues to mark the day with somber speeches, colorful parades and celebrations....in far-flung communities from New Delhi to New York City.
		Explore the traditional and modern customs that surround the holiday in India and in areas throughout the world where India's emigrees have made their homes.
		I Luv U India - A digital love poem to India with tributes to unsung heroes, discoveries and inventions, places of interest, facts and resources, suggested reading, along with a photo gallery, e-cards.
	www.chiff.com /home_life/holiday/india-independence.htm (524 words)

	BBC News \| Cricket \| Independence win for India
		India's captain, Mohammad Azharuddin, was dismissed for four in the third final of the Tri-nation Independence Cup
		India has won the Independence Cup in the three-nation tournament in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after beating Pakistan by three wickets.
		India's 316-7 was the highest score made by a team to win a one-day international, surpassing Sri Lanka's 313 against Zimbabwe during the 1992 World Cup.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sport/cricket/48447.stm (379 words)

	India: Emerging Power
		After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia.
		This landmark book provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since India’s nuclear tests, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements.
		Stephen P. Cohen examines the domestic and international causes of India’s “emergence,” he discusses the way social structure and tradition shape Delhi’s perceptions of the world, and he explores India’s relations with neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as the United States.
	www.brookings.edu /press/books/india.htm (564 words)

	India celebrates Independence Day amid terror alert
		Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in his speech at the celebration ceremony that India is facing major threat of terrorism to its internal security.
		Even tourists to India's national landmark Taj Mahal are affected by the nervous atmosphere.
		India won independence and freedom from British colonial rule on Aug. 15, 1947.
	www.indiandefenceforum.com /index.php/topic,1556.0.html (503 words)

	CNN.com - India braces for Independence Day - August 14, 2002
		Security in India is tight with agencies working on a strategy to foil attacks by Muslim militants during the celeberations
		A heavy security presence is in place throughout the country, especially in the capital New Delhi and in the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, for India's 55th anniversary of independence from British rule on Thursday.
		In New Delhi, where most of the celebrations will take place, the city is also under a security blanket with a similar warning from Indian authorities saying they have received intelligence that separatist militants, including those active in Kashmir and the northeast of the country, are planning to disrupt the anniversary.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/08/14/india.independence (527 words)

	Indian Independence movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian Independence Movement incorporated the efforts by Indians to expel the British, French and Portuguese from their trade-posts in the subcontinent; it involved a wide spectrum of Indian political organizations, philosophies, and rebellions between 1857 and India's emergence as an unified nation-state on August 15, 1947.
		After the revolt was crushed, India developed a class of educated elites whose political organising sought Indian political rights and representation while cleverly allowing the British to go ahead with western-style industrial developments.
		The INA was to see action against the allies, including the British Indian Army, in the forests of in Arakan, Burma and Assam, laying siege on Imphal and Kohima with the Japanese 15th Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_independence_movement (8224 words)

	" Happy Independence Day INDIA "
		Many thanks for all your comments, today INDIA is moving very fast in all the global market of the world, because of its hard working Indians.
		India is the birth place of one of the greatest person of the world Late Mahatma Ghandiji and also place of religious systems such as Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
		Cultures of India was mouldred throughout various eras of history, all the while absorling customs, traditions and Ideas from both invadors and immigrants which have a very strong pre alence and influence not only India but also the entire world because of it's strong economy.
	news.sulekha.com /newsanalysisdisplay.aspx?cid=81801 (375 words)

	Freedom, Trauma, Continuities - Northern India and Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There is more to the story of Indian independence than protracted negotiations with the British or on the role of political leaders.
		There is a considerable and ever growing body of literature which studies the advent of Indian independence in 1947 and the events surrounding it.
		Focusing as it does on popular perception and the human dimension, this volume significantly widens the perspectives that focus on the crucial decade of the forties in the history of the subcontinent.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/7824.htm (341 words)

	FreeIndia.Org - India Site dedicated to freedom movement, education, culture, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bharat Bhakti Stotra: A hymn for the unity of India.
		Ekatmata Stotra: A hymn to the unity of Mother India.
		The culture of India is closely tied to the Hindu dharma - philosopy and way of life.
	www.freeindia.org (202 words)

	INDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harappa The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan "Glimpses of India and Pakistan before 1947 and the story of the ancient Indus Valley.
		American knowledge of India is shaped by the American Institute of Indian Studies, a consortium of universities and colleges in the United States at which scholars actively engage in teaching and research about India.
		Course on contemporary India - readings On the web is an online guide for educators that includesinformation on Hindu deities, video footage of worship, lesson plansfor teachers, and proposed classroom activities for students.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/india (1228 words)

	Independence Day of India,Independence Day Celebration,India 15th August Celebration,Indian Independence Day Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		India got freed from the cluthes of British rule on 15th August, since then India is celebratng its birth right freedom in form of Independence Day.
		India got this independence after the massive bloodshed of innocent people and the life sacrifices made by freedom fighters.
		The decline of the Mughal court after Aurangzeb’s death was shockingly swift.
	www.indiasite.com /festivals/independenceday.html (5257 words)

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