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    The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two...
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    Jinnah. The event was brought forth by the Indian Independence Act 1947 under which the British Raj gave independence to the Dominion of Pakistan which comprised...
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    imperial durbars. The title was abolished on 22 June 1948, with the Indian Independence Act 1947, under which George VI made a royal proclamation that the words...
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    on 15 August 1947, the day when the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly...
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    India. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province...
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  • Indian independence may refer to: Independence Day (India), India's national day marking independence from the British Empire Indian Independence Act...
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    Retrieved 4 November 2008. "Indian Independence Act 1947" (PDF). "Bahamas Independence Act 1973". "Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 (Cth)". National...
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  • the National Democratic Alliance. From 1947 to 1950, the head of state under the Indian Independence Act 1947 was King of India, who was also the monarch...
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    Pakistani monarch in the Dominion of Pakistan, established by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The office of governor-general was abolished when Pakistan became...
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    People's Republic of Bangladesh. The partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947. The change of political borders notably included the division...
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    would be secular. The partition of India was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947. It led to the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and...
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    leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. This was enacted through the Indian Independence Act 1947, an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned...
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    over the 562 Indian princely states ended. According to the Indian Independence Act 1947, "the suzerainty of His Majesty over the Indian States lapses...
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    . . . . . . . . . Whereas, the Indian Independence Act, 1947, provides that as from the fifteenth day of August, 1947, there shall be set up an independent...
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    India Act 1858, the Indian Councils Acts of 1861, 1892 and 1909, the Government of India Acts 1919 and 1935, and the Indian Independence Act 1947. The...
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  • With the partition of India in 1947, the princely states of India, which had been left by the Indian Independence Act 1947 to choose whether to accede to...
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  • Kingdom in 1947, but remained a British Dominion, like Canada and Australia, until 1956. Under Section 8 of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, the Government...
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    culminated in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and the separate nations of India and Pakistan. The Indian Independence Act was passed on 18 July 1947 and, although...
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    Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir (category Use Indian English from March 2015)
    suzerainty over the 562 Indian princely states. According to the Indian Independence Act 1947, "the suzerainty of His Majesty over the Indian States lapses, and...
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    An independence day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part...
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    dynasty and until August 1947 the state was in a subsidiary alliance, from which it was released by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The state acceded to...
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    Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan, pursuant to the Indian Independence Act 1947. The Act provided for dyarchy at the centre. The British government,...
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    the Indian subcontinent, apart from thousands of zamindari estates and jagirs. In 1947, princely states covered 40% of the area of pre-independence India...
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    Pakistan and India on 14 and 15 August, respectively, under the Indian Independence Act 1947. In Bengal, the Krishak Praja Party's Syed Habib-ul-Rahman said...
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  • Act 1982 Egyptian Independence Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence, 1922 Indian independence Dominion of India, 1947 Irish independence (disambiguation)...
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    ruled by Indian rulers under a system of paramountcy. The Dominion of India was formalised by the passage of the Indian Independence Act 1947, which also...
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    Dominion of Pakistan (category States and territories established in 1947)
    Nations, existing between 14 August 1947 and 23 March 1956, created by the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947 by the British parliament, which also...
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    Bangladesh) and India (later Republic of India). The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided 15 August 1947, as the appointed date for the partition. However...
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    Monarchy of Pakistan (category 1947 establishments in Pakistan)
    Under the Indian Independence Act 1947, British India was to be divided into the independent sovereign states of India and Pakistan. From 1947 to 1952,...
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  • Pakistan was already an independent dominion created by the Indian Independence Act 1947. The British parliament enjoyed parliamentary supremacy in its...
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