When India went to the polls four years after Independence, more than 2.2 million ballot boxes were fabricated. If they were laid end to end, the boxes would form a line 326-km long. That's just one of the fascinating bits of information in this Films Division documentary about the enormous effort that went into India's first visit to the polling station.
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