* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1929 – Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.

Edwina and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru became intimate friends after Indian Independence.

The remnants of the Mughal dynasty were finally defeated during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also called the 1857 War of Independence.

The Indian Independence Movement drew inspiration from the numerous goddesses of the Hindu pantheon, to the point that many Indians refer to their country as " Bharat Mata ".

* 1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ( Complete Independence ) which occurred 20 years later.

* 1947 – The " Indian Independence Bill " is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the partition of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries – India and Pakistan.

Jawaharlal Nehru (, 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964 ), often referred to as Panditji, was an Indian politician and statesman, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement, and the first Prime Minister of independent India.

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

After Indian Independence in 1947, the West Bengal State Legislature, with the concurrence of the Government of India, enacted the Jadavpur University Act, 1955 to convert the institute into Jadavpur University with full autonomy on ( December 24, 1955 ).

It extends from The Paseo and Independence Avenue through Indian Mound on Gladstone Boulevard at Belmont Boulevard with many historical points and architectural landmarks.

Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( known as Mahatma Gandhi ), who was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement.

26 January 1930 was celebrated as India's Independence Day by the Indian National Congress meeting in Lahore.

On 14 and 15 August 1947 the Indian Independence Act was invoked.

* 1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.

* 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins.

This had also been promised to the Sikh leader Master Tara Singh by Nehru in return for Sikh political support during the negotiations for Indian Independence.

* The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in British Raj India sows the seeds of discontent and leads to the birth of the Indian Independence Movement.

* January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ( Complete Independence ).

Between 1857 and 1859, this place was one of the main centers where the sparks of the first war of Indian Independence originated.

* 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of " prayer and fasting " in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.

An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali ( later a citizen of Pakistan ), testified that in New Guinea: " the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers.

The Aryans dominated the modern day plateau, while the Indo-Aryans ultimately headed towards the Indian subcontinent.

18th Indian Infantry Brigade — supported by 23 25-pounder gun-howitzers, 16 of the new 6-pounder anti-tank guns and nine Matilda tanks — held out the whole day in desperate fighting, but by evening the Germans succeeded in overrunning them.

Muslim rule in the subcontinent began in 8th century CE when the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in modern day Pakistan, setting the stage for several successive invasions from Central Asia between the 10th and 15th centuries CE, leading to the formation of Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.

After the World Cup Cronje was part of the tour to the West Indies ; he featured in the three ODI's and in the Test match at Bridgetown that followed he made his Test debut, this was South Africa first Test since readmission and they came close to beating a strong West Indian side, going into the final day at 122 / 2 chasing 200 they collapsed to 148.

In solar calendars, this is done by adding to a common year of 365 days, an extra day (" leap day " or " intercalary day ") about every four years, causing a leap year to have 366 days ( Julian, Gregorian and Indian national calendars ).

Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.

Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement.

This day was commemorated by almost every other Indian organisation.

The roots of the Pakistan Army trace back to the British Indian Army which included several personnel from present day Pakistan.

* 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.

Ancient Indian medicine, Ayurveda has recommended its use in food for its medicinal value, much of which is now being researched in the modern day.

After spending the day sifting through Royal Navy archives doing research for a book on the British naval war in the Indian Ocean during World War II, Ryan walks to meet his family at a London park.

Indian EmpireThe Indian Empire included present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

* September 12 – The State of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Army on the day after Pakistani leader Jinnah's death, to assist damage control.

* September 14 – Seven Years ' War – French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Duquesne: A British attack on Fort Duquesne ( present day Pittsburgh ) is defeated.

* January 26 – First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

* 2. 68 microseconds – the amount of time subtracted from the Earth's day as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Just so darned sure of himself that he puts the Indian sign on everyone.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

He became, after a time, commander of a post on the Alabama River, but his operations extended from Mobile throughout the district, and he finally obtained a monopoly of the Indian trade.

It stated that it had lost 20,000,000 livres in its operations, and apparently blamed its poor success largely on the Indian trade.

The exhibition touches briefly on his sojourn in the Southwest ( `` Koshare in the Dust '', a vigorous Indian dance, and landscapes suggest the influence of western color on his palette ).

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

He served in that role for more than five years, making six tours, and traveling more than annually on the Indian frontier of Texas.

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

Another Indian annual, A. hypochondriacus ( prince's feather ), has deeply veined lance-shaped leaves, purple on the under face, and deep crimson flowers densely packed on erect spikes.

In exchange inmates would be granted return passage to the Indian mainland, or the right to settle on the islands.

Kalapani ( Malayalam ) and Sirai Chaalai ( Tamil ), a 1996 Indian film by Priyadarshan, depicts on freedom struggle and briefs on the lives of prisoners in Andaman Islands.

The Indian numerals were adopted by the Persian and Arabic mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west.

Numerous Indian documents on copper plates exist, with the same symbol for zero in them, dated back as far as the 6th century CE.

There is a relatively small addition of flow in the Indian Ocean, with the transport south of Tasmania reaching around 147 Sv, at which point the current is probably the largest on the planet.

Surveys of the SW Indian Ocean have shown phytoplankton group variation based on their location relative to the Polar Front, with diatoms dominating South of the front, and dinoflagellates and flagellates in higher populations North of the front < sup >.</ sup >

Indian ( Hindu ) thought had great influence on Weil.