🇮🇳 INDEPENDENCE DAY🇮🇳
👉🏻 Introduction:-
- In India Independence day is Celebrated on 15th of August every year.
- Independence Day marks the end of 190-year-long British rule in India.
- In 1947, India was declared as a free country on this day.
- Today India complete 73 years as an independent nation.
👉🏻 History and Significance:-
- In 1757, the East India Company defeated the last Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey, which marked the beginning of the British rule in India.
- The Indian Rebellion or the First War of Independence took place in 1857 which was a major yet unsuccessful uprising against the British rule.
- In the year 1885, India’s first political party, Indian National Congress was formed.
- After the conclusion of World War I in 1918, Indian activists called for self-rule or ‘Swaraj’.
- In 1929, the Indian National Congress declared ‘Purna Swaraj’ or Independence of India at an assembly in Lahore.
- Finally, after a series of sessions and meetings between the British government and the Indian National Congress, Lord Mountbatten who served as the last viceroy of pre-independent India, agreed to the proposal.
- On 15th August in 1947, Lord Mountbatten partitioned British India into two new independent nations; India and Pakistan.
👉🏻 Independence day celebration in India:-
- On this day, the national flag of India is hoisted at multiple public places; Prime Minister unfurls the national flag at Red Fort in Delhi to commemorate this historical event.
- Along with the flag-hoisting ceremony, parade and folk-dance performances also take place.
- Multiple festivities take place in different parts of the nation.
- Academic institutions including schools and colleges, host a special ceremony for enlightening the students about the historical significance of this day.
- Children fly tri-coloured kites for celebrating this occasion.
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