Sources: India
Every source cited on this case’s published pages, with where it is used. Organisation and government sources are labelled as perspectives.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Constitution of India (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and its coming into force on 26 January 1950, when India became a republic within the Commonwealth.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir) (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on Maharaja Hari Singh's signing of the Instrument of Accession to India on 26 October 1947, amid the outbreak of fighting between Indian and Pakistani-backed forces in Kashmir; the article notes the accession's validity and the broader Kashmir dispute remain contested between India and Pakistan, an active, unresolved question this bundle does not adjudicate.
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Intergovernmental document · Government perspective or primary official source
Parliament of the United Kingdom, Indian Independence Act, 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6, c. 30) (18 July 1947) link
Official text on legislation.gov.uk, the UK's National Archives legislation service. Received Royal Assent 18 July 1947.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Partition of India (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the Partition of British India along religious lines in August 1947 into India and Pakistan (the latter comprising West and East wings), the Radcliffe Line boundary commission, and estimates of between roughly 10 and 20 million people displaced and of communal violence deaths ranging from approximately 200,000 to 2 million across different studies, figures this bundle reports only as an attributed range, not an adjudicated total.
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Political integration of India (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the 1947-1949 integration of over 500 princely states into the Indian Union, including the contested accessions of Junagadh (annexed by India in 1948 following a plebiscite it organised after the ruler's accession to Pakistan) and Hyderabad (annexed by India in September 1948 through military action, Operation Polo).
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Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation
United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Founding Members of the United Nations (United Nations) link
UN Research Guide page listing India among the 51 original UN Charter signatories, giving the 26 June 1945 signature date and 30 October 1945 ratification date.
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