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1948 departure memory

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Gateway of India deep diagram plate: 1948 departure memory.
1948 departure memory deep plate for Gateway of India. It should show the symbolic departure of the last British troops from the Gateway after independence. Required factual anchors: the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry departed in 1948; the event turned a colonial arrival gate into a decolonization memory; the harbour edge became a public ceremonial threshold.
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1948 departure memory deep plate for Gateway of India. It should show the symbolic departure of the last British troops from the Gateway after independence. Required factual anchors: the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry departed in 1948; the event turned a colonial arrival gate into a decolonization memory; the harbour edge became a public ceremonial threshold.

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