In the executive layout of free India's first cabinet announced in August 1947, who was entrusted with the portfolio of Defense?

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Sardar Baldev Singh served as the first Defense Minister of independent India (retaining the position he held in the 1946 Interim Government). To differentiate: Sardar Patel held Home, Information and Broadcasting, while Jagjivan Ram managed the Labor grid.

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