India independence day (1947): The British Parliament had already passed the

The British Parliament had already passed the Indian Independence Act on 15th July 1947 , which would come into effect in a few hours, marking a historic change. This day was the final chapter of British rule in India and the last day for the British Indian Army’s orders. Who Was The Busiest? The busiest individuals were Lord Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru. Mountbatten, tasked with transferring power to Pakistan and India , oversaw every ceremonial and administrative step, monitored Nehru ... On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation, who, embodying the old spirit of India , held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us. 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 Bangladesh) regions, came into being on 15 August. [1][a] The legislature representatives of the Indian National Congress, [2] the Muslim League, [3 ... Independence and Partition for India in 1947 India became an independent nation at midnight on August 15, 1947 , when the population of the sub continent was around 400 million people (about 320 million in India and 80 million in east and west Pakistan). This is about a forth of the number of people in India , Pakistan and Bangladesh today.