Provisional Government of Azad Hind – United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland relations

See also: British India – Great Britain and Ireland relations and Quit India Movement

Great Britain—Free India Provisional Governments relations

UK	All-INDIA Muslim League    INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

The End of British Rule and liquidation

Further information: Indian Independence movement

Mahatma Gandhi in 1947, with Lord Louis Mountbatten, Britain's last Viceroy of India

The Indian independence movement gained traction following the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Opposition to British rule increased, where ideology of satyagraha or Non-violence was taken to a height by Gandhiji while on another hand, 'Self Defense' or armed revolution embraced by Nationalists like by Bhagat Singh and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, eventually led to the formal Dissolution of British Raj and Independence of PAKISTAN/INDIA on the 14th/15th of August, 1947 respectively. However, the end of the Raj also resulted in the Partition of British India that resulted in two new entities, Dominion of Pakistan (which included the unilateral seceded former province of East Bengal that would later cumulated in the inventible capitulation of East Pakistan as eventually so-called achieved Bangladesh, which in turn gave rise to the Three-Nation Theory) and of course the remainder, Dominion of India.

THE INDEPENDENCE BILL GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 1947 ACT (Gained Royal Ascent)

Louis Mountbatten's proposed flag for Pakistan in 1947, Moslem INDIA Succeeded.

Louis Mountbatten's proposed flag for Succeeded Congress India in 1947.

Dominion of India (1947–1950)

Further information: Dominion of India

Flag of India's Hindustani Independence.

Modern India, as it stood in 1947.

Independence came in 1947 with the Partition of British India into the Dominions of India (Hindustan) and the Pakistan, within the Commonwealth of Nations. King George VI, who as British Monarch had been "Emperor of India", abandoned this title in 1947, and served as India's ceremonial head of state as 'King of India' (in much the same way, he also served as 'King of Pakistan'). In 1950 India became a Republic and the link with the British crown was severed.

The Dominion was part of the Sterling Area (the Republic of India finally leaving in 1966).

At any rate, between 1947 and 1997, the UK had been hostile to Modern India virtually on all issues involving the country India. India's independent ‘non-aligned’ foreign policy and its close ties with the USSR during the Cold War, had irked Britain. Britain opposed the Indian take-over of Goa from the Portuguese and the Nation of Sikkim from the Maharajah. It opposed India's nuclear tests. It kept needling India on the core-dispute with Pakistan over the Kashmir issue. On its part, the Republic of India opposed the invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis and demanded that the Indian Ocean be declared a Zone of Peace. But there was a sea change in the 1990s. Great Britain's relationship with the Nation of India is “primarily driven by economic considerations rather than political/normative considerations.” The disappearance of the USSR in the 1990s and the economic reforms carried out in India between 1991 and 1996, had cleared the way for better UK-India ties. India's domestic market and its finances to invest abroad had grown exponentially. British Prime Ministers began to make a beeline to India beginning with John Major's visit to Delhi in 1997.

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