EVENT INFORMATION

26
Januari
1950

India becomes a republic under its new constitution

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📅 26 Januari 1950 📍 India

India’s constitution came into force and the country became a republic, ending the British monarch’s role as head of state. Constitutional independence followed mass anticolonial struggles and the 1947 partition, whose violence and displacement continued to shape relations between India and Pakistan.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Rajendra Prasad

Jawaharlal Nehru

members of the Constituent Assembly

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Republic of India

Constituent Assembly of India