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India won independence from Britain. polictical
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Gandhi got assassinated by Nathuram Godse who shot him because he didnt agree with what Gandhi was saying.-social
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was an armed conflict that was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars that was fought between the two newly-independent nations.-political
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Le Corbusier builds the Chandigarh for Hariyana- Economical
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Mother Teresa builds a hospice for the dying and free for the poor.-Social
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New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stand together on the top of Everest social
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Indian director Satyajit Ray makes his first film, Pather Panchali social
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Ayub Khan, commander-in-chief of the Pakistani army, replaces Iskander Mirza as president in a bloodless coup political
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The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of lives political
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the assassinated Solomon Bandaranaike, begins the first of three long spells as prime minister of Sri Lanka political
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China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries- political
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After a summer of border skirmishes in Pakistan, an Indian advance towards Lahore initiates full-scale war between the two countries- political
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Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, becomes India's prime minister as leader of the Congress party political
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Pakistan's president Ayub Khan hands over power to another general, Yahya Khan, who introduces martial law
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Mujibur Rahman and his Awami League win on an independence platform in the election in East Pakistan- political
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Indian sitar-player Ravi Shankar composes the first of his two concertos for sitar and orchestra social
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns from prison in West Pakistan to become prime minister of the newly independent state of Bangladesh political
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Mujibur Rahman, with most of his family, is assassinated by junior officers in a coup in Bangladesh-Political
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Zia ul-Haq, the Chief of Army Staff, takes power in a bloodless coup against the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto political
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Ex-president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan for allegedly authorizing the murder of a political opponent political
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerges in India from previous Hindu nationalist groups and soon acquires a large following-social
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Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children uses the moment of India's independence to launch an adventure in magic realism- economical
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The Tamil Tigers launch a civil war against the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka political
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Sikh rebels, demanding an independent Punjab, seize the Golden Temple in social
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35-year-old Benazir Bhutto, daughter of the executed president, leads a coalition government in Pakistan- political
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Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed on corruption charges and her party loses the resulting elections- political
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Rajiv Gandhi is killed near Chennai, during an election campaign, by a suicide bomber on behalf of Tamil militants social
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Benazir Bhutto is dismissed from government in Pakistan for a second time, again on corruption charges-social
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A Pakistani general, Pervez Musharraf, takes power in a military coup- political
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An earthquake kills about 20,000 people in the region of Bhuj in the Indian state of Gujarat economical
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A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly 200,000 people economical