15th august independence day in India: History, wide celebration

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

— Tryst with Destiny speech, Jawaharlal Nehru, 15 August 1947. ( text from Wikipedia)

15th August is the big day for India. it's Independence Day of India or "15th august independence day". Every year on the 15th of August India celebrates Independence day since 1947. In Indian Independence Day, India takes its freedom against the British rule(United Kingdom) after a long war struggle. India's lots of freedom fighters sacrificed their life for gaining this beautiful freedom. this day also commemorates those sacrificed lives.

Every year on 15 August Independence day, the streets of India are decorated with the tricolours of the national flag as the country celebrates its day of independence. This holiday is a dry day in India when the sale of alcohol is banned for one day.

The president delivers the '"Address to the Nation" on the eve of Independence Day. India's prime minister unrolls India's flag and presents a speech at the Red Fort in Old Dehli. Flag hoisting ceremonies and cultural programs Like 15 august independence day dance are held in the state capitals and often involve many schools, collage, universities and many organizations.

15th august independence day in India: independence day celebration & independence day special

The very important moment starts with the hoisting of the national flag(tricolour) by the prime minister, which is synchronised with 21 honorary gunshots and served by a moving performance of the ‘Jana Gana Mana’ (India’s national anthem). To remind every person's of the country’s struggle for freedom, the prime minister addresses the nation and remembers on the events leading up to India’s independence and ends the speech with country’s future concern in a positive manner.

On the morning of 15 August Independence day, the celebration ends with the arrival of the Prime Minister of India, who receives a general salute from the Guard of Honor, which involves deputies from the three wings of the Indian Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) and Delhi Police also who maintains the discipline in the whole day with good perfection.

After the fine speech, Later in the day, patriotic parades performed by the Indian defence authority, which focussed on honouring the freedom fighters, a march-past led by the Indian armed forces, NCC, scout guide, Delhi police and paramilitary forces also performances by the schoolchildren.

In the whole week, before the 15 August Independence day, monuments, landmarks and government buildings are decorated by the country’s national colours by lights and colours. Shops, malls, streets and houses are decorated in similar colours(tricolour), and shopkeepers founded by selling flags, t-shirts, big photography of flag, dupattas( for girls) and kites for the occasion. Documentaries, patriotic films and programmes associated with India’s freedom are displayed on TV channels to get people into the spirit of Independence Day.

As like most of the events are held across the country. The chief minister of each state capital unfolds the flag while the national anthem is sung during the flag hoisting ceremony. Government and non-government institutions, schools, colleges, universities, many organization and housing societies also have flag-hoisting ceremonies and cultural programmes that capture India’s diversity. Patriotic songs are played through loudspeakers and sound systems all day.

Also on this day, a special Beating Retreat ceremony is held at the Wagah Border in Amritsar. It features sword fighting and cultural dances, the ceremonial closing of gates, a parade and a lowering-of-the-flags ceremony.

15th august independence day in India: History of Independence day

The British established their first outpost on the Indian Subcontinent in 1619 at Surat on the northwestern coast. for trading with Mughal of India to England. then By the end of that century, the East India Company had opened three more permanent trading stations at Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. now, these traders spreading their legs slowly to overall India. the finest strategy they applied, divide and rule. they encourage powerful local maharajas against one another for fighting, and by the 1850s had almost total control of the country.

India's freedom fighters got all together and fought much time against Britishers. the revolt of 1857 is one of them. the 1st revolutionary fight held with lots of causality in a big curtain. almost won against Britishers but without a single leader, without a strong unity and without an excellent strategy, the war was failed and the war was fully controlled by the Britishers. but, this time whole power transfer direct to the crown in British from East India Company. but this revolt leaves a good lesson which lit up the fire in all Indian's heart. Many protests were held against the exploitation that followed by the British Empire, including the Gandhi-led non-violent resistance and civil disobedience movement etc.

After a strong threatening revolution, again and again, takes down the Britisher's courage and finally, they kneel down in front of the freedom's of India.

The new viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, advanced the date for the transfer of power, believing the continuous contention between the Congress and the Muslim League might lead to a collapse of the interim government. He chose the second anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, 15 August, as the date of power transfer. The British government announced on 3 June 1947 that it had accepted the idea of partitioning British India into two states; the successor governments would be given dominion status and would have an implicit right to secede from the British Commonwealth. The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo 6 c. 30) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan (including what is now Bangladesh) with effect from 15 August 1947, and granted complete legislative authority upon the respective constituent assemblies of the new countries. The Act received royal assent on 18 July 1947. (  text is taken from Wikipedia) 

15th August Independence Day in India: About National Flag of India

The Indian national flag is a horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and green. The wheel in the centre is a representation of the Ashok Chakra, which appears on the abacus of Ashoka's pillar.

The flag was confirmed on July 22nd 1947 and presented to the Indian nation on August 15th 1947 when Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, raised the Flag at Lahore Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi.

The colour saffron, represents courage, sacrifice and renunciation. The white denotes truth and purity and the green stands for life, faith and chivalry. The wheel symbolises unceasing motion and progress.

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