How did India become a founding member of the UN?
Upvote:0
The reason is that ...during August offer(1940) india was given autonomy...that is why itz became the founding member of UNO and itz name was given to Atlantic charter due to this Autonomy...
Upvote:3
Short answer: India was an original signatory of the Atlantic Charter, which was was unveiled in a "Declaration of United Nations" on January 1, 1942.
This was an eclectic group of some 26 countries that included the following: 1) the Big 4, U.S., U.K., the Soviet Union, and China; 2) a number of small Latin American countries in Central America and the Caribbean close to the U.S.; 3) a number of "captive" nations under German rule with governments in exile, such as the "Benelux" countries, and several countries of eastern and northern Europe and 4) several British Commonwealth countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and South Africa.
One can argue that India was a "captive" nation (of Great Britain) but it was one of the signatories of the declaration.
These signatories later formed the core of the United Nations.
Upvote:6
According to this page on Wikipedia,
India was one of the original members of the League of Nations. In principle, only sovereign states can become UN members. However, although today all UN members are fully sovereign states, four of the original members (Belarus, India, the Philippines, and Ukraine) were not independent at the time of their admission. India signed the Declaration by United Nations on 1 January 1942 and was represented by Girija Shankar Bajpai who was the Indian Agent-General at the time. Afterwards the Indian delegation led by Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar signed the United Nations Charter on behalf of India during the historic United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco, United States on 26 June 1945. Sir A. Ramaswamy Mudaliar later went on to serve as the first president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Technically, India was a founding member in October 1945, despite it being a British colony. India, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia were all British colonies but were given independent seats in the United Nations General Assembly. India gained full independence in 1947.
I know that Belarus and Ukraine were granted seats in the UN even though they were part of USSR because Stalin wanted more seats (and votes) in the UN. I am not entirely sure, but maybe there was a similar case for India and Britain as well. Or perhaps, it was foreshadowing of the coming era of decolonization.
More post
- 📝 What is the source for this Leonardo Da Vinci quote?
- 📝 How did encasillado work?
- 📝 Did the Balkans campaign delay Operation Barbarossa for the Nazis and was it therefore an important reason why they lost against the Soviets in WWII?
- 📝 Live mummification
- 📝 Can anyone identify my great grandfather's military uniform?
- 📝 What is the earliest known reference to the phrase 'water of life'?
- 📝 Would a leader in a monarchy be able to hand their reign over to someone else?
- 📝 What is Caucasian pepper?
- 📝 Two Successive Coups?
- 📝 How can I check/get a BCE calendar for a particular year?
- 📝 When would the Japanese have been able to recognize their archipelago?
- 📝 Why were troops with bayonets often effective against enemy cavalry even though the bayonet was a "secondary" weapon?
- 📝 What's the date of this army uniform?
- 📝 CIA mole in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet
- 📝 Did some Nazi death camp guards use Lee Enfield rifles?
- 📝 What was the impact of race in the French Foreign Legion in the 20th century?
- 📝 Where did Batista announce his resignation?
- 📝 What role did the Ancient Samurai heritage play on Modern Japan during WW2?
- 📝 Origin of Diocletian's tetrarchy
- 📝 How is this pattern from Pompeii also in Cappella Sansevero?
- 📝 Did the "unexpectedness" of key events argue against a "third strike" at Pearl Harbor?
- 📝 Why during the colonial era were Berber countries referred to as “Arab”?
- 📝 Are there any archeological finds or primary source drawings of the Chinese "blade shaped" bamboo-copter or rotary fans?
- 📝 Is it true that Operation Popeye had a trial run in India - code name project Gromet?
- 📝 Was WW1's extended static slaughter caused by bad leadership?
- 📝 The destruction of the Mycenaean palaces and the Sea-peoples
- 📝 Why did Allied Command maintain passive, especially Indian units in Middle East during the years 1942 and 1943?
- 📝 Purple in Roman History
- 📝 What is the ruined tower in the background of this 1649 drawing of the Igeler Säule by Joan Blaeu?
- 📝 Why was the Kashmir issue not completely solved at the end of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 How did India become a founding member of the UN?
- 📝 When and how did the USA and the UK become allies?
- 📝 How did Moscow become the capital/most important city in Russia?
- 📝 When and how did the Han ethnic group become by far the biggest ethnic group in China?
- 📝 How did Moldova and Romania become separate in the first place?
- 📝 How did former Spanish colonies in the Americas become so fragmented?
- 📝 How did residents of Estonia and Latvia prove that their family settled in the country prior to 1940, in order to become citizens in 1989?
- 📝 How did corn become the most produced crop in the world?
- 📝 How did slavery become permissible in the French West Indies when it was forbidden in France?
- 📝 How did New York become the financial hub of America?
- 📝 How did Egypt become a protectorate of the British empire?
- 📝 How did the Catholic Pope manage to become more powerful than Kings in old Europe?
- 📝 How did the South USA become more overtly Christian than the North?
- 📝 How did the Dutch East India Company (VOC) have so much revenue when they only control small part of Indonesia?
- 📝 How did South Korea become one of the most developed nations on Earth?
- 📝 How did the French word 'familier' become associated with the concept of Magical Familiars, historically?
- 📝 How did Charles de Gaulle become the leading figure of French liberation movement?
- 📝 How did member states of the Holy Roman Empire justify only including part of their land inside it?
- 📝 When and how did Thailand cease to be Siam and become the modern Thailand?
- 📝 How did the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth become official?
- 📝 When and how did David become the mascot of Florence?
- 📝 How did an immigrant become a citizen in the nineteenth century?
- 📝 How did Ram and Krishna become the dominant Gods in Hinduism?
- 📝 How and when did the word "nuclear" replace the word "atomic"?
- 📝 How did Israel win the Six-Day War?
- 📝 How did the general population of England convert so smoothly to Protestantism?
- 📝 How did the USSR manage to innovate in an environment characterized by government censorship and high bureaucracy?
- 📝 How did the Romans do division?
- 📝 How did 300,000 people survive the 3 1/2 year siege of Sarajevo?
- 📝 How did the authorities not find the speakeasy clubs during the prohibition?