When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of India (1947–present) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India_(1947...

    The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. When British rule came to an end in 1947 ...

  3. Timeline of Indian history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Indian_history

    Qutb ud-Din Aibak establishes slave dynasty (Mamluk) later to be known as Delhi Sultanate, beginning 320 years rule over India (1206–1526). 1206. Raja Prithu defeats Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji, destroying his army of 12,000 with only about 100 survivors. [ 32 ][ 33 ] 1210.

  4. History of India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India

    The mature Indus civilisation flourished from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, marking the beginning of urban civilisation on the Indian subcontinent. It included cities such as Harappa, Ganweriwal, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan, and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, and Lothal in modern-day India.

  5. Partition of Bengal (1947) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_(1947)

    v. t. e. The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The Bengali Hindu -majority West Bengal became a state of India, and the Bengali Muslim -majority ...

  6. Partition of India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

    British Indian Empire in The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states yellow.. The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

  7. Indian Independence Act 1947 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Independence_Act_1947

    The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received Royal Assent on 18 July 1947 and thus modern-day India and Pakistan, comprising west (modern day Pakistan) and east (modern day ...

  8. Freedom at Midnight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_at_Midnight

    Freedom at Midnight (1975) is a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition.It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.

  9. Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1947...

    The Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, [25] was a war 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 between the two newly independent nations. Pakistan precipitated the war a few weeks after its independence by ...