The Dawn Of Freedom
Midnight, August 14-15, 1947: The sacrifices of the millions who suffered and died for the country finally bore fruit. India became an independent nation.
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The Dawn Of Freedom
Midnight, August 14-15, 1947: The sacrifices of the millions who suffered and died for the country finally bore fruit. India became an independent nation.
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The bid to fragment India led to communal strife
throughout the country. This ‘crisis in India’s soul’, as Jawaharlal Nehru
described it, not only affected its direct victims, but shook the cherished ideals on
which the entire structure of national life was based.
Moving the resolution prescribing an oath for the
members in the Constituent Assembly, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
Independent India, declared: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now
the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... The service of India means the service
of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and
inequality of opportunity."