As India decided to hold celebrations at midnight on August 14, it would have been impossible for Lord Mountbatten to attend two events to hand over power on the same day.

India is celebrating the country's 78th Independence Day on Wednesday, with a festive mood across the nation. But did you know that August 15 was not supposed to be the day that India became ...

Narrator: By the end of the 19th century, the British had controlled much of India for over 100 years. The Indian National Congress, the INC, was formed in 1885 and the idea of independence, self ...

Lord Mountbatten, Mir Ahmadyar Khan, the Khan of Kalat, Jawaharlal Nehru and, Jinnah sat together to decide the future of ...

No doubt Kashmir remains a painful dispute, a source of tension and mistrust, and a memory of those difficult days when great men like Nehru, Patel, Jinnah, and Mountbatten fought over territory ...