10 Little Known Facts About India’s First Independence Day
10 Little Known Facts About India’s First Independence Day
For almost two hundred years India was ruled by the British, and India was a part of the British Empire where, as the saying goes, the sun never set. The key architect of India’s independence movement was Mahatma Gandhi, who insisted on a nonviolent and peaceful end to British rule. Finally, after a long and continuous freedom struggle, India achieved liberation from the British on 15 August 1947. This year we celebrate our 75th independence day. Let’s discuss here some lesser-known facts about India’s First Independence Day.
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The British Government originally planned to hand over the administration by June 1948. But when Lord Mountbatten took charge as the new Viceroy in February 1947, he postponed the plan a year ahead after Jinnah’s partition demand. Finally, after a meeting with the major political parties, Mountbatten locked the date of August 15.
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The independence of India was officially declared at midnight of 14/15 August. The Constituent Assembly session, which began at 11 pm on 14th August, was chaired by its President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Noted freedom fighter Sucheta Kriplani recited Vande Mataram, and then Dr. Rajendra Prasad delivered his presidential speech.
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Then, Dr. S Radhakrishnan made his speech and moved for the freedom movement. It was followed by freedom fighter Hansa Mehta presenting the new national flag to the President. The session concluded following Sucheta Kriplani singing Sare Jahan Se Achcha and Jana Gana Mana
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The ceremonies on 15th August started around 8 AM, with Pandit Nehru and his cabinet being sworn in. The roads were full of people celebrating independence.
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On this day, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister of India. He gave his first speech in Parliament. Chinese, American and Dutch diplomats were present to commemorate the occasion.
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The new Prime Minister and his cabinet took the oath from Chief Justice of the Federal Court, Justice Harilal Kania.
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Jagjivan Ram was the only minister who was not present that day as he was recovering in hospital from the injuries suffered in a plane crash.
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The Indian flag was hoisted on the central dome for the first time at around 10:30 AM.
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A rainbow suddenly popped up on the horizon after a brief shower, and people couldn’t help but notice the resemblance with the colors of the flag.
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People in all states came out on the streets for celebrating independence. In Thiruvananthapuram, a bicycle rally took place with the tricolor.
‘This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla.’
Sadly, such celebrations are not done around us now.
All this is lost with time. It is good to have known this tru ur post.
Interesting post. Thanks for sharing the information. The day was also marred with people uprooted from their homes and becoming paupers overnight.
Interesting facts!!! Loved reading your post. Till this day my home town celebrates independence day in all its glory but i have missed it as i dont live there anymore.its amazing to be a part of it and witness the schools parading on the roads,football matches and drills etc.
Very nice article… proud to be an Indian….a day to celebrate 🙏🙏Jai Hind 🙏😊
Didn’t know some of the facts. Thanks for sharing. Such celebrations are important to bring about oneness in the community.
These are quite interesting. I didn’t know about a couple of them. Learning something new every day. Thanks for sharing these.
I didn’t know about the rainbow part. That truly must’ve been a spectacular moment!
The Constituent Assembly session, began at 11 pm on 14th August,is something I wasn’t aware of. Good to know these facts.
It was great to read about so many facts about the Indian Independence Day. The point on the rainbow gave me goosebumps imagine the people who would have seen it, I am sure it would have been an amazing sight to watch.
I love how you show your Nationalism and hope I have a bit of that with me too. It’s great learning more about your country and its history.
It was fascinating to learn so many details about Indian Independence Day in this post. I will be going to read this to my kids. These kinds of celebrations are essential for bringing the community closer together. Reading the 9th point about the rainbow gave me a goosebump, hope will witness this someday.
This is great knowledge! Everyone celebrates the Independence Day but the facts about the first Independence Day are not known. Thanks for sharing this great post.
What an interesting collection of facts! Your post prompted me to read up more on this, and I read that Mountbatten chose August 15th because it was the second anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies in WWII. Obviously, the rainbow fact is my absolute favorite!
Woow much informative post. These days our politicians are playing really nasty politics and not even giving respect to our motherland and the national flag. Really heartbreaking era it is. Kudos to you for such amazing information.
It is such an interesting post. It is incredible to know about the facts behind the day that is celebrated throughout the nation every year. I am sure these facts are not known by most.
Except point no 7 and 9, I’ve read them all. However, the way you presented it was beautiful.
Hey thanks for this information. I thought I knew everything about how we got Independence but your points made me realise I am ignorant about a few.
An informational post indeed. I never knew many of these facts.
Interesting facts they are
Wow. I didn’t know any of those facts. My favorite fact was rainbow for sure.
These are some incredible facts. I’m hoping everyone reads them.
Nice post, neatly mentioned points which are mostly unknown to most of the Indians toaday. Rather Many people think, It’s worst now and not before independence.
Thanks for sharing these interesting facts! I didn’t know quite a few of them!