History of India
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Friday, January 29th, 2010On this day in 1948, Mohandas Gandhi was shot and killed by Nathuram Godse, a fundamentalist Hindu who opposed the Mahatma’s fight against India’s traditional caste system. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s prime minister and one of Gandhi’s closest associates, announced the…
Republic Day and Purna Swaraj
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Today is Republic Day in India, which celebrates the official adoption of the constitution on this day 60 years ago, which officially made the country a secular democratic republic. The date was planned to fall on the 20th anniversary of…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s 120th birthday
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
On this day 120 years ago, in the United Provinces of British India, Jawaharlal Nehru was born. Pandit Nehru, as he came to be known, would grow up to be one of the leading figures in India’s struggle for independence,…
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