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Independence Day 2022 | Iconic images from 1947
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru taking oath at the midnight of August 15, 1947. Credit: DH Archives
Jawahar Lal Nehru's first address to the nation from Red Fort on August 15, 1947. Credit: Flickr Photo
21 August, 1947: Crowds at New Delhi watching a motorcade on Independence Day. Credit: Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images
26 August, 1947: Mahatma Gandhi arriving through a surging crowd for a prayer meeting on the Calcutta Maidan, India. 100,000 Hindus and Muslims congregated to listen to Gandhi during the meeting in celebration of the Muslim festival Id-ul-Fitr. Credit: Photo by Keystone/Getty Images
1947: Crowds of refugees gathered in Delhi having fled the Punjab riots Credit: Photo by Keystone/Getty Images
Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949, centre) gives her inaugural address at the World Religions Conference in New Delhi, India, March 1947. She was appointed leader of the Indian delegation to the Inter Asian Conference. Credit: Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
28 March, 1947: Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), takes the salute from the Governor General's bodyguard at Viceroy House in New Delhi, as he takes up his position as Viceroy of India. Credit: Photo by Keystone/Getty Images
7 August, 1947: Muslim women boarding a train at New Delhi in India to travel to the newly independent Pakistan. Credit: Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images
16 September, 1947: Mahatma Gandhi, with Lord Listowel, Secretary of State for Burma, at Government House, New Delhi. Their meeting took place shortly after Gandhi's fast, taken in protest to violent disturbances in Calcutta. Credit: Photo by Keystone/Getty Images
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