Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Administrative change
Over 500 princely states acceded to the Indian Union between 1947 and 1949, including the contested cases of Junagadh, Hyderabad, and Jammu and Kashmir.
Significance here: The process by which princely states, not directly covered by the Indian Independence Act, joined the new Indian Union.
· Declaration
The Indian Independence Act, 1947, enacted by the UK Parliament, established India and Pakistan as two independent dominions with effect from 15 August 1947.
Significance here: The Act that ended British rule in India and established India as an independent dominion.
· Administrative change
British India was partitioned along religious lines into India and Pakistan, accompanied by a boundary drawn by the Radcliffe Line commission and mass displacement and communal violence whose scale is estimated only within a wide range.
Significance here: The partition that accompanied independence and shaped India's post-independence borders and population movements.
· Constitutional change
The Constitution of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly in November 1949, came into force on 26 January 1950, making India a republic within the Commonwealth.
Significance here: India's transition from a Commonwealth dominion to a republic under its own constitution.
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