⚔ Battle
First Kashmir war
1947 – present · 📍 Srinagar
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♻ Fought over again and again
Other battles within 40 km of this place.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1943 Bengal famine · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1947 Pakistan comes into being · Pakistan (West & East)
- 1947 Independence and Partition · Dominion of India
- 1947 Mountbatten Plan · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1948 Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi · Dominion of India
- 1948 Ceylon becomes independent · Dominion of Ceylon
- 1950 Constitution comes into force · Republic of India
- 1952 Bengali Language Movement · Pakistan (West & East)
Alive at the time
M. Visvesvaraya
1861 – 1962
Engineer and Diwan of Mysore whose birthday is Engineers' Day
Mahatma Gandhi1869 – 1948
Leader of non-violent satyagraha against British rule
Sri Aurobindo1872 – 1950
Revolutionary turned yogi-philosopher of Pondicherry
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel1875 – 1950
'Iron Man of India' who integrated the princely states
Sir John Marshall1876 – 1958
ASI Director-General who announced the Indus civilization in 1924
Sarojini Naidu1879 – 1949
The 'Nightingale of India' and first woman governor of an Indian state
E. V. Ramasamy (Periyar)1879 – 1973
Founder of the Self-Respect Movement
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar1883 – 1966
Author of 'The Indian War of Independence, 1857'