News India Watch in pics: Major events that changed India

Watch in pics: Major events that changed India

New Delhi: With 64 years gone by since India became a republic, the nation has passed through several vicissitudes, successes and mass movements.  These events have moulded the face of India for good or bad,


9. India- China war



The Indo- Sino war in 1962 changed the country's perception about non-violence forever.

The war is remembered for the humiliation of India's defeat, the betrayal by China of Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai slogans and the devastating personal blow it dealt to  Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The invasion transformed our national mindset on matters military/defence for ever.

Never again - as the wars in 1965, 1971 & Kargil showed - would India be caught as unprepared.

 

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