Chronological Events of Indian History

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Chronological Events of Indian

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14th August 1947


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30th January, 1948


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INDO-PAK WAR (1947-1949)


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26th JANUARY 1950


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Dr. Rajendra Prasad

became the firstPresident of India

Mr. Jawaharlal

Nehru became thefirst Prime Ministerof India.


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The Companies Act,1956


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SINO-INDIAN WAR(1962)


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Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded Nehru

as Prime Minister.

Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru died on 27th May 1964.


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Indira Gandhi bacame the third Prime Minister of India in 1966.


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The Third India Pakistan War(1971)

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In 1974, the Allahabad High Court found IndiraGandhi guilty of misusing government machineryfor election purposes. Opposition parties conductednationwide strikes and protests demanding her

immediate resignation.

Indira Gandhi's Congress Party called for generalelections in 1977, only to suffer a humiliatingelectoral defeat at the hands of the Janata Party, an

amalgamation of opposition parties.


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Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress Prime

Minister of India.


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In 1979, the coalition crumbled and CharanSingh formed an interim government. The Janataparty had become intensely unpopular due to its

internecine warfare, and the fact that it offered noleadership on solving India's serious economic andsocial problems.


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2nd Time

14th January 1980


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Operation Blue Star(1984) Khalistan militants in

the Golden Temple-

Sikhs' most holy shrine- in Amritsar, theinadvertent deaths ofcivilians and damage tothe temple buildinginflamed tensions inthe Sikh communityacross India.

This operation wasordered by Mrs. IndiraGandhi.


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31st October,1984

Two of Gandhi's Sikh

bodyguards, SatwantSingh and BeantSingh, shot her withtheir service weaponsin the garden of the

Prime Minister'sresidence at 1Safdarjung Road, NewDelhi as she was

walking past a wicketgate guarded bySatwant and Beant.

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Mr. Rajiv Gandhi became the 6th Prime

Minister of India


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Anti-Sikh Riots(1984)


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The Bhopal

Gas Disaster

A gas leak incidentin India, consideredone of the world'sworst industrial

catastrophes. Itoccurred on the nightof December 23,1984 at the UnionCarbide India

Limited(UCIL)pesticide plantin Bhopal,MadhyaPradesh, India.


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Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan

Civil War(1987)

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21st May 1991

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated


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MASTERMIND

Velupillai Prabhakaran

The Demolition of Babri


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The Demolition of BabriMasjid was thedestruction of the 16th-century mosque of BabriMasjid in Ayodhya, Uttar

Pradesh, India onDecember 6, 1992 byHindu Karsevaks in anattempt to reclaim theland known as Ram

Janmabhoomi. Thedemolition occurred aftera religious ceremonyturned violent andresulted in several months

of intercommunal riotingbetweenIndia's Hindu and Muslim communities, causing thedeath of at least 2,000people.


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The Kargil War(Operation Vijay)

India

May-June 1999

527 killed

1363 wounded

Pakistan

4000 Killed

665+ wounded


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2001 Gujrat Earthquake

The 2001 Gujaratearthquake occurred on January26, 2001, India's52nd RepublicDay, at 08:46 AMlocal time

(3:16 UTC) andlasted for overtwo minutes.


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Mumbai Attacks(2008) The 2008 Mumbai

attacks (sometimesreferred toas 26/11) were 11coordinatedshooting and

bombing attacksacross Mumbai,India's largest city,by terrorists.

164 people were

killed & atleast 308people werewounded.


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The Mastermind behind

that attacks

Hafeez Saeed

The only terroristcaptured & Now jailedin Aurthur Road

Jail,Mumbai(Sentencedto death still pending)

Ajmal Aamir Kasab


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2011 Cricket World Cup


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Manoj Ladhar

Rahul Solanki

Amar Shukla Saurav Shrivastava

Gauhar Khan

Mithun Ghosh


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