Most Amazing Hidden Facts about India's Independence that Every Indian Must Know{ UPDATED VERSION}
By tushar083 - August 15, 2017
7 Unknown Facts About The Indian Independence!
"Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now that time comes when we shall redeem our pledge …at the stroke of today’s midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. "
-Jawaharlal Nehru
India, the country known for Lingual- Cultural diversity, as the originator of Chess, Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus, World’s largest Democracy and the country with the largest Road Network! India indeed has a long history to tell about itself ever since independence till date.
Celebrating 70 years of Independence, we thought of bringing something different to the table. We thought of showing you something from behind the scenes. So, here's presenting 7 unknown facts regarding Indian independence:
1. Our National Anthem:
Well this might baffle you to an extent but it is true! The Indian National Anthem, drafted by Rabindranath Tagore was to pay homage to King George V! Well Yes! Astonishing, Right?
2. Nehru wasn’t elected as our first Prime Minister:
Yes it was not Nehru but Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Sardar Patel won the Prime Ministry elections fair and square but since Nehru didn’t want to play second in command to anyone and also that Gandhi had a soft spot for Nehru, Sardar Patel was pulled down.
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3. The Indian Flag Hoisting :
We all are of the notion that Indian flag was first hoisted on Aug 15th 1947. But that isn’t true. Our National flag is said to be first hoisted on August 7, 1906 in Parsee Bagan Square (Green Park) in Calcutta.
4. The maker of the Indian Flag:
There have been various adaptations of our flag and it is often conceived that Mahatma Gandhi was the one who came up with the design of Indian flag but in reality, it was Pingali Venkavya, a freedom fighter who came up with the idea of our very flag!
5. Multi-Lingual Freedom Fighters:
The Inspiring Soul of India - Bhagat Singh was highly fluent in many different languages like French, Swedish, English, Arabic, Hindi and Punjabi and not just that, he was a voracious reader as well.
6. India – The Peace Maker:
India has always been a peace-maker. Certainly, the history speaks of it! India has never invaded any country in her last 1,00,000 years of history.
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7. Jawaharlal Nehru - Trend Setter:
This one is an absolute stunner! India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru was pictured in Vogue Magazine wearing his traditional coat and so his single breasted jacket became a Fashion trend in the West.
Fact 1 : Do you know why British left India on 15th August? I mean why this specific date? Why 15th August?
The reason was this man
The man is
His Excellency Rear Admiral of the Fleet,The Right Honourable Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, KCG, PC GMSI, GCFO, KCB, DSO, the outgoing Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia.
In short,
Lord Mountbatten.
Last viceroy and first governor general of India.
He was a very pompous and proud man. He was the Commander of Allied forces in South east Asia in 1945. It was him before whom, Japan surrendered after atomic attacks on 6th and 9th August.
The date of surrender was 15th August. Lord Mountbatten took extreme pride in this achievement and considered this date as his lucky day.
Therefore he decided to grant India freedom on this particular day.
Fact 2 : Why India got freedom in midnight of 15th August? Why midnight (12:00 am, 15th August)
Reason was superstition.
Indian astrologers, based on their calculations, strongly believed that 15 August is an inauspicious day. But Mountbatten was adamant for 15th August. A compromise was sought out.
Midnight of 15 will be still 14th August because in Indian system, a new day begins with sunrise, while it will be 15th August for British because new day starts at midnight in British system.
Everybody was happy. :)
And here’s a bonus fact for you:
8. 'India’ – The Name:
India gets its name from the River Indus which was the home of the Indus Valley Civilization, and is considered to be one of the first civilizations. On the other hand, our country’s name in Sanskrit is Bhartiya Ganarjya.
Here are Some Bonus Facts For You:-
Here are some awesome facts about the Indian Independence movement. Read on...
1. 1857 The freedom movement actually took off post the 1857 riots. The war of 1857 triggered a motive among Indians to fight for Independence.
2. Battle Of PLassey British rule originally and officially commenced after their victory in the Battle of Plassey. Since their victory in the Battle of Plassey, the British ruled India for a whopping 190 years until their oppressive rule was brought to an end in 1947.
3. Princely States After India attained Independence, 560 princely states joined the Indian union. 2 others, Hyderabad and Junagadh, were annexed by the Indian army.
- India has the second largest English speaking population in the world.
- India is world's largest democracy in the world with 1.2 billion people.
- May 26 is celebrated as science day in honour of former president Dr APJ Abdul kalam,because on the day kalam visited the country.
- Chess was invented in India
- Algebra, Calculus, Trigonometry are studies which are originated in India
- The most number of films are made in India, over 1000 a year.
- Besides the US and Japan, India is the only country in the world to have indigenously built a super computer
- India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history
- The Indian national kabaddi team has won all the world cups
- The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
- Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world.
- India has the largest number of post offices in the world.
- It is illegal for a child in india to neglect their parents after their retirement.
- The largest funeral attendance in history, 15 million people took to the streets of Chennai in memory of the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state. was widely respected as a writer and speaker and also extremely popular after he made Tamil the official language of the state, rejecting Hindi
- Believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth, Kumbh Mela is held every 12 years in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is thought that 30 million Hindu pilgrims gathered to bathe during the festival in 2013.
- 36 % of scientists working in NASA are Indians.
- Indians are the CEOs of some of the world's largest MNCs in the world like Google,Microsoft,Abode,Pepsi,MasterCard,Jaguar etc.
PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN
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