Whole India got independence on 15 August 1947?🇮🇳 Really🤔🤔
When I was a child👦 I used to think that that whole India got independence on 15 August 1947. 🇮🇳 But it is half truth The British India Empire 🇬🇧 , which included present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh was divided into two types of territories: the provinces of British India, which were governed directly by British officials responsible to the Governor General of India ; and princely states, 🤴 under the rule of local hereditary rulers who recognised British suzerainty in return for local autonomy, in most cases as established by treaty. So, on 15 August 1947,only the Provinces of British India got Independence and not the whole India. After the Indian independence; 562 princely states had nodded to join the Indian Confederation except Hyderabad, Junagadh, Bhopal and Kashmir. *States which became part of Indian Union after independence*🔗🇮🇳 1. Jammu and Kashmir* : The king of this state signed the "Instrument of Accession" to India and became part