β Battle
Sino-Indian War
1962 β present Β· π Tawang
What it led to: China declared a ceasefire after advancing in the east and in Aksai Chin.
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1952 Bengali Language Movement Β· Pakistan (West & East)
- 1956 States Reorganisation Act Β· Republic of India
- 1960 Indus Waters Treaty
- 1960 Bombay State split into Maharashtra and Gujarat Β· Republic of India
- 1961 Goa liberated Β· Republic of India
- 1965 Maldives becomes independent Β· Sultanate of the Maldives
- 1971 Independence of Bangladesh Β· People's Republic of Bangladesh
- 1971 β Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Β· Republic of India
Alive at the time
M. Visvesvaraya
1861 β 1962
Engineer and Diwan of Mysore whose birthday is Engineers' Day
E. V. Ramasamy (Periyar)1879 β 1973
Founder of the Self-Respect Movement
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar1883 β 1966
Author of 'The Indian War of Independence, 1857'
Rajendra Prasad1884 β 1963
First President of India
C. V. Raman1888 β 1970
Physics Nobel laureate (1930) for the Raman effect
Jawaharlal Nehru1889 β 1964
First Prime Minister of India
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan1890 β 1988
'Frontier Gandhi' who led the Khudai Khidmatgars
Satyendra Nath Bose1894 β 1974
Physicist of Bose-Einstein statistics
πΈ Connections 36 links
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π Era 1
- Modern IndiaPart of this era
β³ Periods 1
- Republic of IndiaBelongs to this period
π Kingdoms & empires 9
- Kingdom of Nepal 1816 β 2008Existed at the same time (58 years)
- Kingdom of Bhutan 1907 β presentExisted at the same time (76 years)
- Pakistan (West & East) 1947 β 1971Existed at the same time (21 years)
- Dominion of Ceylon 1948 β 1972Existed at the same time (22 years)
- Republic of Maldives 1968 β presentExisted at the same time (58 years)
- Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1971 β presentExisted at the same time (55 years)
- People's Republic of Bangladesh 1971 β presentExisted at the same time (55 years)
- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 1972 β presentExisted at the same time (54 years)
- Afghanistan 1973 β presentExisted at the same time (53 years)
π Rulers 6
- Jawaharlal Nehru 1950 β 1964Ruled it
- Lal Bahadur Shastri 1964 β 1966Ruled it
- Indira Gandhi 1966 β 1977Ruled it
- Morarji Desai 1977 β 1979Ruled it
- Charan Singh 1979 β 1980Ruled it
- Indira Gandhi 1980 β 1984Ruled it
π€ People 8
- Rajendra Prasad 1884 β 1963Lived under it
- Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 β 1964Lived under it
- B. R. Ambedkar 1891 β 1956Lived under it
- Vinoba Bhave 1895 β 1982Lived under it
- Potti Sriramulu 1901 β 1952Lived under it
- Syama Prasad Mookerjee 1901 β 1953Lived under it
- Jayaprakash Narayan 1902 β 1979Lived under it
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 1903 β 1988Lived under it
β Events 6
- Constitution comes into force 1950Happened in it
- States Reorganisation Act 1956Happened in it
- Goa liberated 1961Happened in it
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971Happened in it
- Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984Happened in it
- Economic liberalisation 1991Happened in it
π§ Technology 3
- TIFRAC: India's first working computer 1954β1960Made or discovered in this time
- Chandrayaan-1 22 October 2008Made or discovered in this time
- Mars Orbiter Mission 5 November 2013Made or discovered in this time
π Books 2
- India After Gandhi Ramachandra GuhaRecommended reading
- Our Pasts I, II & III (Classes 6β8) NCERTRecommended reading