10 Iconic Images of August 15, 1947
14 Aug 2022 21:46:27
It is August 15, 1947. Several emotions are running high. Partition of India has been the talk of the town. But it is the day when India gains independence from British Rule.
As India celebrates its 76th year of Independence day, let us take a walk down memory lane and see pictures from India in 1947.
1. Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held during midnight on August 15, 1947.
2. PM Nehru addresses the nation from the Red Fort on 15 August 1947.
3. The front page of The Statesman, on August 15, 1947
4. The front page of the Hindustan Times on August 15, 1947
5. Lord Mountbatten, Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru at the first Independence Day celebrations
6. Tiranga hoisted in Chandni Chowk in New Delhi on Independence Day in 1947
7. Tiranga hoisted at UN, Lake Success, New York
8. A stamp from August 15, 1947
9. Lakhs of people used trains to flee the violence during Partition
10. Mahatma Gandhi fasting on 15 August 1947 in Calcutta
