India Remembered

In March 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India, with themandate to hand over ''''the jewel in the crown'''' of the British Empire within oneyear. Mountbatten worked with Nehru, Gandhi and the leader of the MuslimLeague, Jinnah, to devise a plan for partitioning the empire into twoindependent sovereign states, India and Pakistan, on August 15, 1947 and heremained as interim G...