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Freedom Struggle20 September 202612 min read

The Road to 15 August 1947: A Timeline of India's Freedom Struggle

Ninety years separate the rising at Meerut from the midnight of independence. Here are the events, organisations and people that carried India from one to the other.

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Freedom Struggle10 September 2026· 7 min

Stitching a Nation Together: The Integration of the Princely States

In 1947 two-fifths of the subcontinent was ruled by princes. Within two years almost all of it had joined India. How Sardar Patel and V. P. Menon did it.