Governor Genral

India became formally independent from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947 and the country became a Commonwealth dominion. The Monarch of India was represented by the Governor-General of India, now appointed by George VI - King of India upon the advice of the Prime Minister of India, instead of the British government.
This was a temporary measure, however, as the continued existence of a shared monarch in theIndian political system was not considered by some appropriate for a truly sovereign nation. The first Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten, was also the last
British Viceroy of India before independence. He soon handed power over to C. Rajagopalachari, who became the first, last and only ethnically Indian governor general.
In the meantime, the Constituent Assembly led by Dr. Rajendra Prasad . The drafting was finished on 26 November 1949, and the Constitution was formally adopted on 26 January 1950—a date of symbolic importance as it was on 26 January 1930, that Indian National Congress had first issued the call for complete independence from Britain. When the constitution took effect, the Governor General and King were replaced by an elected president, with Rajendra Prasad serving as the first President of India.
The move ended India's status as a Commonwealth dominion, but the republic remained in the Commonwealth of Nations. Nehru argued that a nation should be allowed to stay in the Commonwealth simply by observing the British monarch as "Head of the Commonwealth" but not necessarily head of state. This was a ground-breaking decision that would set a precedent in the second half of the twentieth century for many other former British colonies to remain in the Commonwealth after becoming newly-independent republics