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    The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two...
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    Kingdom on 15 August 1947. On this day the Indian Independence Act 1947 came into effect, transferring legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly...
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    imperial durbars. The title was abolished on 22 June 1948, with the Indian Independence Act 1947, under which George VI made a royal proclamation that the words...
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  • Committee, Indian independence organization and conspiracy circle in Germany during World War I (see Hindu–German Conspiracy) Indian Independence Act 1947, an...
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    Jinnah. The event was brought forth by the Indian Independence Act 1947 under which the British Raj gave independence to the Dominion of Pakistan which comprised...
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    rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province...
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    Pakistani monarch in the Dominion of Pakistan, established by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The office of governor-general was abolished when Pakistan became...
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    Retrieved 4 November 2008. "Indian Independence Act 1947" (PDF). "INDEPENDENCE DAY". "Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 (Cth)". National Archives...
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  • List of heads of state of India (category Use Indian English from August 2024)
    the National Democratic Alliance. From 1947 to 1950, the head of state under the Indian Independence Act 1947 was King of India, who was also the monarch...
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    between the two new dominions. The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj, or Crown...
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    would be secular. The partition of India was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947. It led to the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and...
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    leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. This was enacted through the Indian Independence Act 1947, an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned...
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    existence on 15 August 1947 under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act 1947 which had received royal assent on 18 July 1947. This act, along with the...
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    over the 562 Indian princely states ended. According to the Indian Independence Act 1947, "the suzerainty of His Majesty over the Indian States lapses...
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    . . . . . . . . . Whereas, the Indian Independence Act, 1947, provides that as from the fifteenth day of August, 1947, there shall be set up an independent...
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    culminated in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and the separate nations of India and Pakistan. The Indian Independence Act was passed on 18 July 1947 and, although...
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    dynasty and until August 1947 the state was in a subsidiary alliance, from which it was released by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The state acceded to...
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  • title. The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 was amended in 1948 by the Indian Independence Act 1947 so as to omit the words Emperor of India from...
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    Pakistan and India on 14 and 15 August, respectively, under the Indian Independence Act 1947. In Bengal, the Krishak Praja Party's Syed Habib-ul-Rahman said...
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  • Kingdom's Indian Independence Act 1947. As the dies omitting the title were not immediately ready for use, a small maple leaf was added next to the 1947 dated...
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  • With the partition of India in 1947, the princely states of India, which had been left by the Indian Independence Act 1947 to choose whether to accede to...
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  • in the Indian Independence Act 1947; Following the Irish precedent, Article 395 of the Constitution of India repealed the Indian Independence Act — something...
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    Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan, pursuant to the Indian Independence Act 1947. The Act provided for dyarchy at the centre. The British government,...
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    'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting from 1858 to 1947. It is also called Crown rule in India, or Direct rule...
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  • The Indian independence movement was a series of events aimed at ending the British rule in India, which lasted till 1947. Women played a significant...
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  • Kingdom in 1947, but remained a British Dominion, like Canada and Australia, until 1956. Under Section 8 of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, the Government...
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    India Act 1858, the Indian Councils Acts of 1861, 1892 and 1909, the Government of India Acts 1919 and 1935, and the Indian Independence Act 1947. The...
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    An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part...
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    Rajpramukh (category Use Indian English from October 2016)
    India's independence in 1947 until 1956. Rajpramukhs were the appointed governors of certain Indian provinces and states. The British Indian Empire, which...
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    Monarchy of Pakistan (category 1947 establishments in Pakistan)
    Under the Indian Independence Act 1947, British India was to be divided into the independent sovereign states of India and Pakistan. From 1947 to 1952,...
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