History of the Republic of India
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 120 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5094-2323-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of the Republic of India began on 26 January 1950. The country became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth 15 August 1947. George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) was King until the Republic was proclaimed in 1950. Concurrently the Muslim-majority northwest and east of British India was separated into the Dominion of Pakistan, by the partition of India. The partition led to a population transfer of more than 10 million people between India and Pakistan and the death of about one million people."Lord Louis Mountbatten, and later Chakravarti Rajagopalachari served in the office of the Governor General of India. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel became the Deputy Prime Minister of India and its Minister of Home Affairs. But, Mohandas Gandhi accepted no office and chose to pay a visit to the riot-torn areas of Bengal and Bihar, where he tried through his...