Mountbatten’s Report on the Last Viceroyalty 22
March-15 August 1947
By- Lionel Carter (ed.)
This volume reproduces in full Mountbatten’s own
account of the last five months of British rule in India based on reports he
sent to London at the time. Written with disarming frankness, we witness the
failure of Mountbatten’s initial attempts to secure independence on the basis
of a united India. He then turned to some form of agreed partition and his
eventual success was achieved after considerable feats of diplomacy. The
figures of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and other key leaders loom
large in this account. Mountbatten provides a valuable introductory historical
survey and a chapter in which he draws up his conclusions. There are thirteen
appendices providing the texts of key documents and an index of the persona
involved in these momentous events.
Before becoming the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten played a major part in
the defeat of Japan in the Second World War. He was Supreme Allied Commander,
South-East Asia Command between 1943 and 1946. Here he was also responsible for
preparing Burma for civilian rule. Mountbatten served as first Governor-General
of the new Dominion of India and after he left India in June 1948 he held a
number of senior posts. He was First Sea Lord in Britain between 1955 and 1959
and then became (until 1965) Chief of the U.K. Defence Staff.
ISBN
81-7304-516-X 2003
402p. Rs.850/Pounds 60
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