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Independence Day means a day when India gained its freedom from British rule.

India was under the British rule for 3-4 centuries. It was in 1857 that India started its independence struggle forcefully through a revolt named "The Great Revolt" against the British.

Mahatma Gandhi was the spine and brain behind the Indian independence struggle. Gandhi promoted "Nonviolence" or "Ahimsa" against the cannons and rifles of the British. His words of wisdom were followed by almost every Indian of that age, to follow nonviolence and struggle with perseverance, and the British finally manumitted India from its bondage. India's independence struggle is a huge epic on its own. Nonviolence was the weapon used to free India. That's why India, even today, doesn't want to resort to force or war unless there is some menace to the security/integrity of Indian unity.

India gained independence after nearly 200 years of British rule on 15 August 1947, and the Indian tricolor flag was unfurled by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on the ramparts the Red Fort of Delhi. I am proud to be an Indian.

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