The original Constitution of India is hand-written with beautiful calligraphy, each page beautified and decorated by artists from Shantiniketan including Beohar Rammanohar Sinha and Nandalal Bose.

The islands were nominally put under the authority of the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( Provisional Government of Free India ) headed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

* 1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier.

Along with Subhas Chandra Bose, Nehru was considered a radical within the party during his tenure as general secretary due to his rejection of dominion status for India in favour of complete independence.

However, the two split in the late 1930s, when Bose agreed to seek the help of fascists in driving the British out of India.

After the fall of Bose from the mainstream of Indian politics ( due to his support of violence in driving the British out of India ), the power struggle between the socialists and conservatives balanced out.

* 1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

** The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

* December 30 – Subhash Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair, India.

** British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 2½ years.

" According to Subhas Chandra Bose, a major proponent of armed struggle for Indian independence, Vivekananda " is the maker of modern India "; for Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda's influence increased his " love for his country a thousandfold.

* The Provisional Government of Free India ( 1943 – 1945 ), set up in Singapore in October 1943 by Subhash Chandra Bose and alleged by the Allies to have been a puppet state, it was in charge of Indian expatriates and military personnel in Japanese Southeast Asia.

Bose was born in Calcutta now Kolkata, West Bengal, India, the eldest of seven children.

The period of the Second World War saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India movement ( led by " Mahatma " Gandhi ) and the Indian National Army ( INA ) movement ( led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ) and others, eventually resulting in the withdrawal of the British.

Initially formed in 1942 immediately after the fall of Singapore under Mohan Singh, the first INA collapsed in December that year before it was revived under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943 and proclaimed the army of Bose's Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( The Provisional Government of Free India ).

Rise of militarism in India dates back to the British Raj with the rise of several Indian independence movement organizations such as Indian National Army led by Subhash Chandra Bose.

* Subhas Chandra Bose, Head of State of Provisional Government of Free India ( Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind )

Bose returned to India in 1885, carrying a letter from Fawcett, the economist to Lord Ripon, Viceroy of India.

Bose's 60 GHz microwave apparatus at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.

Lodge ’ s work caught the attention of scientists in different countries including Bose in India.

* Mukherji, Visvapriya, Jagadish Chandra Bose, second edition, 1994, Builders of Modern India series, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, ISBN 81-230-0047-2.

Bose most commonly refers to Bose ( surname ), a family name primarily but not exclusively associated with India.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

He certainly corresponded with Elias III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and possibly sent a mission to India in honour of Saint Thomas the Apostle, whose tomb was believed to lie in that country.

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

Out of the Samanid dynasty came the Ghaznavids, whose warriors forged the first great Islamic empire from Ghazni ( Afghanistan ) that spanned much of the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and conducted many successful raids into India.

Dating back to 1932, " Tollywood " was the earliest Hollywood-inspired name, referring to the Bengali film industry based in Tollygunge, Calcutta, whose name is reminiscent of " Hollywood " and was the center of the cinema of India at the time .< ref name = Sarkar >

Bonaparte had sought to invade Egypt, as the first step in a campaign against British India whose ultimate aim was to drive Britain out of the French Revolutionary Wars.

The campaign would sever the chain of communication that connected Britain with India, an essential part of her Empire whose trade links generated the wealth Britain required to prosecute the war successfully.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni ( 973 – 1048 CE ) was one of the earliest Muslim geologists, whose works included the earliest writings on the geology of India, hypothesizing that the Indian subcontinent was once a sea.

Writing in Bengali, he created a library of over 2, 000 songs now known by Bengalis as ' rabindra sangeet ' whose form is primarily influenced by Hindustani classical, sub-classicals, Karnatic, western, bauls, bhatiyali and different folk songs of India.

India lies largely on the Indian Plate, the northern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, whose continental crust forms the Indian subcontinent.

After the independence of Pakistan, Karachi received a large number of refugees from all over India, whose influence is now evident in the city's different sub-cultures.

The origins of the Brahui speaking tribes are uncertain, but their language indicates they are a northern Dravidian people, who may have migrated from central India circa 1000 AD, whose language has been modified by residence in the proximity of largely Iranian peoples, most notably the Baloch with whom the Brahui have been greatly mixed.

This was rejected by the Khan of Kalat who, upset by the claim, issued a communiqué: " On the night of March 27, All India Radio, Delhi announced that two months ago Kalat State had approached the Indian Union to accept its accession to India and that the Indian Union had rejected the request … It had never been my intention to accede to India … It is, therefore, declared that from 9 pm on March 27th – the time when I heard the false news over the air, I forthwith decide to accede to Pakistan, and that whatever differences now exist between Kalat and Pakistan be placed in writing before Mr Jinnah, the Governor-General of Pakistan, whose decision I shall accept ".

* 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.

:" The Parliament must exercise vigilance and control over the biggest and most powerful financial institution it has created, the Life Insurance Corporation of India, whose misapplication of public funds we shall scrutinise today.

This put him in a small group of spinners whose career averages were inferior to their performances against India, generally regarded as the best players of spin in the world.

Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.

Baden-Powell's personal experiences in India led him to adopt Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as a major influence for the Cub Scouts ; for example, the name used for the Cub Scout leader, Akela ( whose name was also appropriated for the Webelos ), is that of the leader of the wolf pack in the book.

* March 6 – Prime Minister of India Chandra Shekhar resigns because of a dispute with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose support had kept him in power.

* March 21 – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India, marries Princess Louise.

Diodorus Siculus mentions Gangaridai to be the most powerful empire in India whose king possessed an army of 20, 000 horses, 200, 000 infantry, 2, 000 chariots and 4, 000 elephants trained and equipped for war.

Da Gama and his crew contracted the services of a pilot whose knowledge of the monsoon winds allowed him to bring the expedition the rest of the way to Calicut ( Kozhikkodu ), located on the southwest coast of India.