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India

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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia, bounded by the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, and bordering Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. In 1947 the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two independent dominions, a Hindu-majority dominion of India and a Muslim-majority dominion of Pakistan, accompanied by large-scale loss of life and unprecedented migration. Since 1950 India has been a federal republic governed through a democratic parliamentary system, and its population grew from 361 million in 1951 to over 1.4 billion in 2023.

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Disputed
Start Year
1947 1
The lead names two real, distinct founding dates: independence and partition in 1947, and the start of the federal republic in 1950, since when India has been a federal republic. Recorded here as 1947, the independence date, with 1950 named as the alternate rather than silently dropped.
Capital
New Delhi 1
Government type (class)
Republic 1
Classification
Status (Extant or Former)
Extant 1
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East India Company, Organizations
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Daya Singh (Punjabi: ਦਇਆ ਸਿੰਘ (Gurmukhi); born Daya Ram; 1661–1708) was one of the Panj Pyare, the first five Sikhs to be initiated into the Khalsa order in 17th-century India.
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Born in a family of farmers in central Gujarat, India, he became a swami within the Vadtal diocese of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya at the age of 17 where he was given the name Yagnapurushdas Swami.
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Akshapada Gautama (c. 200 BC – c. 150 BC) was an Indian philosopher of the Ancient era, associated with Indian Philosophy.
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was a prominent South Indian philosopher and scholar
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seventeenth-century Indian philosopher belonging to a school of thinkers
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was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer
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Kumarila Bhatta (c. 700 - c. 750) was an Indian philosopher of the Medieval era, associated with Indian Philosophy.

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1. Wikipedia: India
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  • Introduction
    In 1947, the British Indian Empire was partitioned into the independent dominions of a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
  • India: Status
    India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia, bounded by the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, and bordering Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
  • Wikipedia lead paragraph, official name/state form (w-bbfill-history3-0927)
  • Infobox: capital
    New Delhi
  • In Era: The Contemporary Period, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
    India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia.
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