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    Editorial: A red-letter day

    That India has at long last achieved her independence by agreement with Great Britain is a fact for which the sagacity and statesmanship of Britain is entitled to the fullest credit. Read more

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    Mountbatten's address

    On August 14, 1947, Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, addressed the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan wishing the two new sovereign nations, India and Pakistan, good luck. Read more

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    Nehru's message

    A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materialises, said the then PM Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech. Read more

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    Presentation of flag

    We have donned the saffron colour. We have fought, suffered, and sacrificed in the course of our country's struggle for freedom, said Hansa Mehta while presenting the Tricolour to the House. Read more

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    India office closes down

    A brief on the closure of a political institution, the India Office, in London on the eve of India’s Independence. Read more

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    Jinnah's reply

    I thank Your Excellency for your expressions of goodwill and good wishes for the future of Pakistan. It will be our constant effort to work for the welfare and wellbeing of all the communities in Pakistan, said Jinnah. Read more

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    Father of the nation

    Gandhiji has been the country's trusted pilot and the dictator of its premier political organisation. Read more

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    Birth of great Asiatic power

    The whole of India—practically, for, France and Portugal still occupy odd spots—was rid of foreign occupation after I don't know how many hundred years. And it was done by nonviolent means, wrote K.M.Munshi. Read more

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    Saga of the Nehrus

    Motilal Nehru’s youngest daughter, Krishna Huthee Singh, narrates decades of freedom struggle based on what she observed at home. She explains the father-son bond between Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru. Read more

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    India and Pakistan

    India has now become a full-fledged Dominion, though she has parted with some of her territory in the process. Read more

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    Netaji and the INA

    Netaji practised an independent outlook in every detail throughout the campaign. In diplomacy and military strategy, he was superb. Read more

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    Aurobindo on free India

    India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom, wrote Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. Read more

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    Science in new India

    Science can be free in India only when we eradicate the tendencies which a century or more of foreign rule has left behind as an evil legacy, said Dr. C.V.Raman. Read more

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    Krishna Menon on foreign relations

    The legendary diplomat V.K. Krishna Menon gives his perspective on how India should maintain a good rapport with other nations upon Independence. Read more

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    Finances of the union

    The budget estimate for 1947-48 for All-India, made up of Income-tax, Super-tax, Corporation Tax, Business Profits Tax, Capital Gains Tax and E. P. T. arrears is estimated to be 164 crores and odd, wrote T.T.Krishnamachari . Read more

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    Emancipation of women

    The political and social emancipation movements of the women of India lacked the drama and struggle of the western suffragettes, wrote Mrs.S. Muthulakshmi Reddi . Read more

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