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Interesting facts about Independence Day of India: Dear Friends, Here we have given some undisclosed facts about Indian Independence. This will be more interesting for the aspirants preparing for competitive exams. We have given this article based on the exam point of view use for your General Knowledge Preparation.

Interesting facts about Independence Day of India | Undisclosed facts about India

  • 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 civilization. On the Other hand, our country’s name in Sanskrit is BhartiyaGanarjya.
  • Indian independence was officially declared at the fifth sitting of the Constituent Assembly of India in the Constitution Hall, in what is now the Parliament house on the midnight of  August 14. The session began at 11pm with the President of Indian Constituent Assembly, Dr  Rajendra Prasad in the chair and the recitation of VandeMataram was by freedom fighter SuchetaKriplani.
  • The ceremonies of August 15, 1947, started at 8 a.m., with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the newly re-designated Governor-General Lord Mountbatten being sworn in at the Government House.

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Mountbatten made a speech as the Governor- General following which he signaled that the Indian national flag to be flown over the dome of the building. A salvo of 31- gun salute heralded the unfurling of independent India’s Flag for the first time. The first Public hoisting of the Indian flag took place in the afternoon at Princess park near India Gate.

When the tricolor was finally hoisted, there was a shower of rain and a rainbow appeared vividly in the sky. They looked at three prominent colours of the rainbow and exclaimed heavenly flag. The first hoisting national flag on the ramparts of the Red Fort, which has since become a tradition on Independence Day, was done by Prime Minister Nehru on the morning of the next day, August 16.

Important facts about independence day of india

  • Jana Gana was Officially adopted as India’s national anthem in 1950.It was originally composed by poet Rabindranath Tagore.
  • The exchange Rate on August 15,1947 was Re 1=$1
  • India had more than 550 princely states before getting Independence.
  • 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 PingaliVenkavya, a freedom fighter who came up with the idea of our very flag.

Some interesting facts about indian independence

The Inspiring Soul of India is Bhagat Singh who 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.

The Constituent Assembly completed the work of drafting the constitution on 26 November 1949; on 26 January 1950 the Republic of India was officially proclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the firstPresident of India, taking over from Governor General Rajgopalachari. In 1952, India held its first general elections, with a voter turnout exceeding 62%; this made it the world’s largest democracy.

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