• 1947 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1947: Bulgarian leader...
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  • August 16 1947, or simply 1947, is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language historical drama film written and directed by N.S. Ponkumar, and produced by AR Murugadoss...
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    annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947, the day when the...
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    following the termination of the British Raj between the 14th and 15th August 1947. By the time of independence, Pakistan retained King George VI and after...
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    Pakistan and India legally came into existence at midnight on 14 and 15 August 1947 respectively. The partition caused large-scale loss of life and an unprecedented...
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    dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. Until its independence, India had been ruled as...
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  • partition violence, the message reached him on 25 August. 11 August 1947 (1947-08-11) – 13 August 1947 (1947-08-13): Partition violence erupted in Sialkot...
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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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  • Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the...
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    14–15 August 1947, was done according to what has come to be known as the 3 June Plan, or the Mountbatten Plan. Indian independence, on 15 August 1947, ended...
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    an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, affected...
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    a province of British India from 1 April 1936 to 1947 and Dominion of Pakistan from 14 August 1947 to 14 October 1955. Under the British, it encompassed...
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    1947 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1947. 1947 (MCMXLVII)...
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    the rebellion, Sardar Ibrahim Khan, escaped to Lahore by the end of August 1947 and persuaded the Pakistani authorities to back the rebellion. In addition...
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    The history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan began on 14 August 1947 when the country came into being in the form of Dominion of Pakistan within the...
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    the Radcliffe commissions. The demarcation line was published on 17 August 1947, two days after the independence of Pakistan and India. Today, the Punjab...
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  • minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until...
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  • writer and translator August Bebel (1840–1913), German social-democrat August Blom (1869–1947), Danish film director August Bogusch (1890–1948), German...
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    with some hesitancy in October 1946. Upon India's independence on 15 August 1947, Nehru gave a critically acclaimed speech, "Tryst with Destiny"; he was...
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    days of the British Raj, Manipur was one of the princely states. On 11 August 1947, Maharaja Bodhachandra Singh signed an Instrument of Accession, argued...
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    units sent to India). With the partition of India and Pakistan on 15 August 1947, the army was reconstituted and divided between the two new Dominions...
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  • were instituted on 26 January 1950, with retroactive effect from 15 August 1947. The PVC is equivalent to the Victoria Cross in the United Kingdom and...
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    Cádiz explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas (Submarine Defence...
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    of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to...
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    nominated by princely states. After India's independence from the British in August 1947, its members served as the nation's 'Provisional Parliament', as well...
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    Parliament. After the partition of British India on the midnight of 14/15 August 1947, Pakistan followed the British system by creating the post of prime minister...
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    On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago,...
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    Patel of the Indian National Congress party, who was sworn in on 15 August 1947, when India gained independence from the British Raj. Serving until his...
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    of the governors of Punjab state in India since its partition on 15 August 1947. Since 1985, the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of...
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  • Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon between 23 August and 20 September 1947. They were the first elections overseen and administered by the newly...
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