# Independence
**स्वतंत्रता**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/independence-1947/
- Chapter: [The Republic and its states](https://indianepics.online/chapter/republic.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1947 CE
- Where: Red Fort, Delhi (28.656, 77.241)
- Tags: political, colonial

## Summary

The Indian Independence Act takes effect at midnight on 15 August; Nehru tells the Constituent Assembly India keeps its tryst with destiny.

15 अगस्त की मध्यरात्रि को भारतीय स्वतंत्रता अधिनियम लागू हुआ; नेहरू ने संविधान सभा में 'नियति से साक्षात्कार' का भाषण दिया।

## Account

Nehru spoke in the Constituent Assembly as midnight struck. The new government was sworn in that morning, and on 16 August he raised the flag over the Red Fort's Lahori Gate, a ceremony every prime minister has repeated since.

The map changed with it: two dominions; most of some 565 princely states already acceded to one or the other, but Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir still in contention; and a line through the Punjab and Bengal that had not yet been published.

## Sources

- Indian Independence Act 1947 — https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1947/30/contents
- Nehru, 'The Honour of the Flag', Red Fort, 16 August 1947 — https://nehruarchive.in/documents/the-honour-of-the-flag-16-august-1947-7y7w35

## Image

Revisit our Tryst with Destiny. Shannon.Mathew, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARevisit_our_Tryst_with_Destiny.JPG

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