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Abanindranath Tagore was born.
Abanindranath Tagore: The Day He Stopped Copying European Art
Abanindranath Tagore looked at the oil paintings filling the walls of colonial Calcutta and made a deliberate decision to turn away from them. Not because they were badly…
Read the storySwadeshi movement gathers at Calcutta Town Hall
A historic meeting in Calcutta adopted boycott and swadeshi resolutions during the anti-partition movement.
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M. S. Swaminathan
Indian scientist.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate.
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Louis Mountbatten becomes the first Governor General of India
Louis Mountbatten becomes the first Governor General of India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.
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The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST)
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First National Handloom Day
India observed its first National Handloom Day, commemorating the Swadeshi movement of 7 August 1905.
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