Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty
22 March-15 August 1947

Lionel Carter (Edited by)

9788173045165

Hardback, published 20 November 2024

402 pages, four colour maps
23 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.5 kg

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.

• Editor's Introduction 7
• Preface 17
• Introduction 19
• Part A –
  22nd March –
  15th April 57
• Part B –
  15th April –
  6th May 89
• Part C –
  6th May –
  4th June 137
• Part D –
  4th June –
  5th July 165
• Part E –
  5th July –
  25th July 209
• Part F –
  25th July –
  15th August 233
• Conclusions 183
• List of Names 289
• Appendices 311
• Maps after 398