premise: Midnight, 14 15 August, in the year 1947, was a moment, in the words of Prime Minister Nehru,  when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.  
hypothesis: 1947 was the year that Prime Minister Nehru said it was the end of an age, and the old were being replaced by the new.