77th Independence Day of India: Respect and Gratitude to our Freedom fighters and forefathers.
On this day, we celebrate the achievement of Independence from the British rule, I wish each citizen of India offer their sense of gratitude to the freedom fighters and our forefathers for their contribution to shape the modern India, even before the actual independence in 1947. By the Indian Independence Act 1947 , the British gave up their suzerainty of the states and left each of them free to choose whether to join one of the newly independent countries of India and Pakistan or to remain outside them. For a short time, some of the rulers explored the possibility of a federation of the states separate from either, but this came to nothing. Most of the states then decided to accede to India or to Pakistan, such as Junagadh (1947–1948), Bilaspur on 12 October 1948, and Bhopal on 1 May 1949. Travancore also chose to remain an independent country. Hyderabad State was the largest which chose to remain independent. In Operation Polo , in September 1948, it was invaded and