India 1960-2000

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  • War over disputed territory of Kashmir with China

    India won Diu, Daman and Goa from Portuguese India

  • Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru

  • Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir

  • Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister

  • Twenty-year treaty of friendship signed with Soviet Union

  • India explodes first nuclear device in underground test

  • Rajiv Gandhi assassinated

    Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.

  • Rajiv Gandhi assassinated

    Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.

  • Widespread Hindu-Muslim violence

    Babri Mosque in Ayodhya is demolished, triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence

  • Cellular services in India

    West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu made the first call from Kolkata to inaugurate the cellular services in India

  • Cyclone devastates eastern state of Odisha

    leaving at least 10,000 dead

  • India marks the birth of its billionth citizen