Historical Figure

B.R. Ambedkar

Associated Events

Colonialism1858 CE – 1947 CE

British Raj

Following the 1857 rebellion, the British Crown assumed direct rule of India from the East India Company. For 89 years, a vast colonial bureaucracy governed hundreds of millions of people, building railways and telegraph systems while systematically extracting India's wealth and suppressing self-governance.

Independence1950 CE – 1950 CE

Constitution of India

On January 26, 1950, India adopted the world's longest written constitution, transforming itself from a Dominion into a sovereign democratic republic. Drafted over nearly three years by a Constituent Assembly chaired by Rajendra Prasad with B.R. Ambedkar leading the Drafting Committee, it abolished untouchability, guaranteed fundamental rights, and introduced universal adult suffrage.