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tension increases between the INC and the Muslim League, who want a separate state.
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India wins independenve and Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister. Partition leads to religious violence. In protest, Gandhi goes on a hunger strike
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India won its independence from the United Kingdom
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Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
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Ghandi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
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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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India became the world's sixth nuclear power
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the first Indian satellite, ARYABHATTA, was launched
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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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a Hyberabad organization called the MV Foundation created a yearlong residential school for girls between the ages of nine and fourteen
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India's current prime minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is voted into office
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Overall death tolls in Jammu and Kashmir related to control of the region climb to 21,000 people
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there were 30 million telephone lines and 3 million mobile phones in India's major cities.
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is elected president
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Tensions in Jammu and Kashmir intensity. India and Pakistan both threaten to declare war.