On India's 78th Independence Day, here's a list of places that you can visit to get acquainted with India's fight for freedom
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Red Fort is the place where India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru raised the Indian flag on the first day of independence on August 15, 1947
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Raj Ghat in Delhi is another significant site where Mahatma Gandhi's last rites were performed after his assassination in 1948
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India Gate is a war memorial dedicated to the Indian soldiers who lost their lives during World War 1 and the Third Anglo-African War
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Cellular jail, or Kaala Paani, at the Andaman Islands, is the place where those fighting for Independence were locked up. Today, the building has a museum
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Jallianwala Bagh is the infamous place where General Dyer and his soldiers opened fire at the men, women and children gathered there on April 13, 1919
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Sabarmati Ashram was Gandhi Ji's home in Ahmedabad and served as the starting point of the Dandi March of 1930
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Kakori - In 1925, Indian revolutionaries robbed a train of government funds in Kakori, an incident known as the Kakori Train robbery
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Jhansi is probably one of the most important places from the Independence movement. Here, Rani Lakshmi Bai led a valiant resistance against British rule in 1857