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nearly half of the people in modern india speak either hindi or bengali
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india wins independence and jawaharlal nehru becomes prime minister
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gandhi is assassinated by a hindu extremist
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It’s corny how the building most indispensable to modern Indian democracy came up as an afterthought.
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Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festival of South India, mainly Tamil Nadu. Pongal falls in the mid-January every year and marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan – sun's journey northwards.
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goa gains independence from portuguese rule
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indira gandhi is voted into office by a landslide
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civil war in east pakistan drives nine million refugees into india and ends with the creation of bangladesh
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the bid to turn punjab into a sikh nation ends when indira gandhi orders a siege on a sikh temple, which kills 600 people soon after, she is assassinated
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indian's current prime minister, shri atal bilhari vajpayee is voted into office
