15 most significant events in post-independent India
The anti-corruption movement started by Gandhian leader Anna Hazare charged up the whole nation with enormous public support pouring in from every nook and corner in favour of his agitation for a strong Lokpal Bill.
Maruti 800 is a small city car that was manufactured by Maruti Suzuki in India from 1983 to 18 January 2014.
India with winners like Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra and Reita Faria saw those ladies who did us proud at international beauty pageants.
In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, newly elected Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao surprisingly inducted Manmohan Singh into his cabinet as Finance Minister who took steps to liberalise Indian economy.
Widely known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash, or Loknayak, the leader is famously remembered for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution.
The Indian cricket team are the current World Champions. In addition to winning the 2011 Cricket World Cup on home ground, they won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
The IT industry in India has gained a brand identity as a knowledge economy due to its IT and ITES sector. India's growing stature in the Information Age enabled it to form close ties with both the United States of America and the Europe.
After the first explosion in 18th May 1974, Indira Gandhi claimed that the Pokhran explosion was an effort to harness atomic energy for peaceful purposes and to make India self-reliant in nuclear technology.
In 1982, a team of PM Indira Gandhi, Defence Minister R. Venkataraman, V.S. Arunachalam (Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister), Dr. Abdul Kalam (Director, DRDL) gave new dimensions to the missile program.
The Kargil war displayed, in full measure, the strength of the Nation and its capability to with stand any challenge, however insidious and deceitful.
It was Dr. Vikram Sarabhai who founded the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad in 1947. This was the first step that India took towards becoming a space power.
The nationalisation of banks in India took place in 1969 by Mrs. Indira Gandhi the then prime minister. It nationalised 14 banks then. Earlier, only State Bank of India (SBI) was nationalised. It took place in July 1955 under the SBI Act of 1955.
On July 14, 1952, the day that marked the end of zamindari, a system of tax collecting which has held most of India's plain people in thrall. In Chhabi Biswas, the protagonist plays a feudal lord unable to come to terms with his lost zamindari.
In India, the Privy Purse was a payment made to the royal families of erstwhile princely states as part of their agreements to first integrate with India in 1947, and later to merge their states in 1949 whereby they lost all ruling rights.
August 15th, 1947, inaugurated one of the cruelest and most enduring ironies of decolonisation. India, a British property with over 4,500 years of civilization and a population of 415 million, finally achieved independence.
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