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About Independence and partition
The history of the Republic of India started on 26 January 1950. The nation turned into an autonomous country inside of the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Simultaneously the Muslim-greater part northwest and east of British India was isolated into the Dominion of Pakistan, by the allotment of India.
The allotment prompted a populace exchange of more than 10 million individuals in the middle of India and Pakistan and the passing of around one million individuals. Patriot pioneer Jawaharlal Nehru turned into the first Prime Minister of India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel turned into the Deputy Prime Minister of India and its Minister of Home Affairs.
Be that as it may, the most effective pioneer Mahatma Gandhi acknowledged no office. The new constitution of 1950 made India a mainstream and a popularity based state.
It has a Hindu greater part, an extensive Muslim minority, and various different religious minorities including Sikhs and Christians.
The country confronted religious viciousness, casteism, Naxalism, terrorism and territorial separatist rebellions, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern India. India has an uncertain regional debate with China, which, in 1962, swelled into the Sino-Indian War, and with Pakistan, which brought about wars in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999.
India was nonpartisan in the driving rain War, yet bought its military weapons from the Soviet Union, while its curve enemy Pakistan was firmly fixed to the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
India is an atomic weapon state; having directed its first atomic test in 1974, took after by another five tests in 1998. From the 1950s to the 1980s, India took after communist propelled approaches.
The economy was shackled by broad regulation, protectionism and open possession, prompting pervasive defilement and moderate financial growth.
Beginning in 1991, huge monetary reforms have changed India into the third biggest and one of the quickest developing economies on the planet.
Today, India is a noteworthy politically influential nation with a conspicuous voice in worldwide undertakings and is looking for a lasting seat in the United Nations Security Council. Numerous financial specialists, military experts and research organizations anticipate that India will turn into a superpower sooner rather than later.