15th August 1947 is the day when India got its Independence so we celebrate our independence on this day. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and many more were the leaders who struggled day and night to make India an Independent country.

History of Independence Day

With the selection by Britain to remove from the Indian subcontinent, the Congress Party and Muslim League decided in June 1947 to a partition of India along religious terms. Under the requirements of the Indian Independence Act, India and Pakistan were emerged as independent dominions with mainly Hindu areas allocated to India and mainly Muslim areas to Pakistan.

After India’s independence on August 15, 1947, India developed most of the subcontinent’s 562 extensively extended polities, or princely states, also the greater part of the British provinces, and parts of three of the left over provinces. Muslim Pakistan acknowledged the remainder. Pakistan consisted of a western wing, with the near boundaries of modern Pakistan, and an eastern wing, with the boundaries of today’s Bangladesh.

The Partition movement:

The partition of the subcontinent led to huge dislocation of populations; inter-communal aggression led to loss of more than 1,000,000 lives. Some 3.5 million Hindus and Sikhs shifted from Pakistan into India, and about 5 million Muslims moved from India to Pakistan. In Punjab, where the Sikh community was reduce to half, an era of severe violence followed. On the whole, the demographic shift resulted in an original bitterness between the two countries that was more intensified by each country’s appointment of a part of the princely states. Addition to the tensions, the matter of the polities Kashmir, Hyderabad, and the small and disjointed state of Junagadh (in present-day Gujarat), remained unresolved at independence. Afterward, the Muslim ruler of Hindu-majority Junagadh decided to join to Pakistan, but a movement by his people, followed by Indian military action and a plebiscite (people’s vote of self-determination), brought the state into India.

The King rule:

The Nizam of Hyderabad, also a Muslim ruler of a Hindu-majority populace, tried to planing to get independence for his great and heavily populated state, which was, still, enclosed by India. After more than a year of unproductive discussions, India sent its army in a police action in September 1948, and Hyderabad became section of India.

The ruler of Kashmir:

The Hindu ruler of Kashmir, whose subject matter were 85 percent Muslim, determined to join India. Pakistan, however, questioned his right to do so, and a war took place between India and Pakistan. A truce was set in 1949, with the cease-fire line creating a de facto partition of the region. The central and eastern areas of the state came under Indian administration as Jammu and Kashmir State, while the northwestern quarter came under Pakistani control as Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas. Even though a UN peacekeeping force was sent in to put into effect the cease-fire, the argument was undecided. This deadlock has intensified doubt and rivalry between the two countries. In 1971, Pakistan was itself subdivided when its eastern section broke away and formed Bangladesh. Border disputes carry on to make bitter Pakistani-Indian relations, as Pakistan has created a series of repressive military rulers, while India maintained a parliamentary democracy.