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INDIAN HISTORY
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Gripping details from
India’s Independence
and Partition
At midnight on August 14 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of
independent India, gave a famous speech which hailed the country’s decades-
long, non-violent campaign against British rule:
“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny and now the time
comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full
measure, but very substantial. At the stroke of the midnight hour,
when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A
moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out
from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a
nation, long suppressed, finds utterance”
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