Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan ...

Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands is an imperious view of the British Raj's collapse, redeemed by its forgotten stories of ...

The British aristocrat, daughter of Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley, may appear to have always lived in the shadow of her ...

Sam Dalrymple’s ‘Shattered Lands’ presents, for the first time, the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade.

Indian Independence Day 2021: On 3 June 1947, Lord Mountbatten put forward his plan which outlined the steps for the solution of India’s political problem. Let us read about it in detail. By ...

When Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, died in her sleep amid the jungles of North Borneo in 1960, she was found surrounded by letters. Not, as one may expect, from her husband, the ...

A Riveting Retelling of India's Journey to Independence. Entertainment. DC Correspondent. 17 Nov 2024 6:20 PM IST. x. ... Luke McGibney and Cordelia Bugeja shine as Lord and Lady Mountbatten, ...

LORD Mountbatten was a prominent member of the Royal Family before his death in a shock explosion. The death of the politician and mentor to King Charles III is covered in Channel 5’s Crimes ...

India first observed Independence Day not on August 15, 1947, ... But Lord Mountbatten decided not to wait that long and picked August 15 as the date as Japan had surrendered to the Allies on that ...

It was upto Lord Louis Mountbatten to transfer power into the hands of Indians before the English became embroiled in the conflict. Thus came the Indian Independence Day, 1947 passed by the ...

Lord Mountbatten had been given a mandate by the British parliament to transfer the power by June 30, 1948. The Indian Independence Bill gave August 15 as the date of independence for both India ...