• after the British victory in the Battle of Plassey, the rule of East India Company started in India.

  • The British Crown had assumed control over India

  • the Labour government, the exchequer of Britain thought of ending their rule over India because of their exhaustion of capital post the World War II.

  • the prominent Indian leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Abul Kalam Azad, Master Tara Singh and B. R. Ambedkar agreed for a partition of India along religious outline.

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    The British government announced, during the early 1947, that they intend to transfer power to the Indians by the month of June 1948

  • The republic of India gained its independence from the rule of the British

  • Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed India's independence by reading out his famous speech known as "Tryst with destiny".