Let us take a look back to the good old days where are freedom fighters fought to keep are generation alive and free of foreign rule. Or else, even we could have ended up like most of the other countries with mixed races!
Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the last English Governor-General in India, on the 3rd June, 1947, declared about the separation of India into two halves – The India, today and Pakistan. This was done according to the provisions laid down by the Indian Independence Act 1947. On the night of 14 August, 1947, India was freed from foreign rule and it became independent.
Our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, said so in diary :
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance….. We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again.”
Read more: http://www.dailylatestnews.com/2010/08/13/53rd-indian-independence-day-2010-preperations-started-027616#ixzz0wTw9UKEm
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