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unusual facts about independent India



Alamohan Das

In independent India's first election in 1951, he won a seat in the West Bengal state assembly, contesting as an independent candidate from Amta (Vidhan Sabha constituency).

Melville de Mellow

He is remembered for his high quality reports and commentary on various events in independent India, the most notable of which is a seven hour broadcast of Mahatma Gandhi's funeral in Delhi.


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Arangotukara

The first top most executive of the Press Trust of India (PTI) in independent India was Sri A S Bharathan who was from this village.

Bakshi Badri Nath Chhibber

Rai Bahadur Bakshi Badri Nath Chhibber (1897-1988), was a highly decorated police officer in British and independent India.

Holkar Science College

The College was then affiliated to the University of Indore, which was established in 1964 by an act of legislative assembly of newly form Madhya Pradesh state of Independent India.

Linganna Pujari

His greatest political achievement was in 1946 when Pujari, as an independent candidate for the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) by-elections with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's blessings and support, defeated Congressman Raja Gunottam Hutheesing, husband of Krishna Hutheesing and brother-in-law of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.

Modern Hindu law

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, worked to unify the newly independent India by proposing the reformation and codification of Hindu personal law.

Motilal Verma

In 1935, Dr. Rajendra Prasad also visited his home who later on became the First President of Independent India.

Sonam Topgay Dorji

On April 23, 1948, Topgay Dorji headed the Bhutanese delegation to recently independent India, meeting Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Soumitra Sen

He was the first judge in independent India to be impeached in India's Rajya Sabha for misappropriation of funds.

Vedanta Kesari

Its contributors include John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon, the Englishman known for pioneering work in Tantra studies), Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, C. Rajagopalachari (the first Governor General of Independent India), T.L. Vaswani (the founder of Vaswani Mission, Pune), K.M. Munshi (the founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan), Dr Karan Singh, H.H.Dalai Lama and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.