Church of Our Lady of Light, Chennai this church is considered to be one of the oldest European monuments in India. The feast of Our Lady of Light is celebrated on 15 August every year which is also the day of Indian independence and hence a national holiday. The day is also as the feast of "Assumption of Mary". The feast is celebrated with a grand mass and car procession. The Novena prayer to Our Lady of Light is as follows Church of Our Lady of Light, Chennai Church of Our Lady of Light () is a Roman Catholic shrine in Chennai, India. It is commonly called
Dominion of India Mahatma Gandhi's attempt to reconcile the two nations via a fast led to his assassination in 1948 by Nathuram Godse, further increasing tensions between the two new states. The Dominion of India began working towards a constitution based on liberal democracy immediately after independence. The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India, drafted by a committee headed by B. R. Ambedkar, on 26 November 1949. India abolished the role of the constitutional monarchy and became a federal, democratic republic after it's constitution came into effect on 26 January 1950; henceforth celebrated as Republic Day. The governmental structure was similar to