His British wife, Margaret, might have been a factor in the new link up. There were reasons to believe that Pandit Nehru’s arrest was made by Kak at the behest of the Political Department.

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.

Nehru was accompanied by his daughter Indira, and by Countess Mountbatten, wife of India’s last British viceroy.

Edwina Mountbatten has been in the news this week, after the Prime Minister's Museum and Library for the first time formally asked for the return of personal letters written by India's first Prime ...

The Countess’s daughter, Lady Pamela Hicks, confirmed in her book Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten that her mother had fallen for Jawaharlal Nehru. Despite a profound emotional bond, she ...

According to Kadri the ‘missing’ documents include letters exchanged between Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten — the wife of British viceroy Lord Louis Mountbatten.

In 2008, during the UPA government, these letters were allegedly sent to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. While the BJP has claimed that Sonia took possession of 51 cartons of Nehru’s letters, certain ...

In May 1947, Nehru was invited by Viceroy Mountbatten and Edwina to Mashobra in Simla for an ‘informal weekend’. As Alex von Tunzelmann wrote in his 2007 book Indian Summer, “Jawahar walked with ...

Party's digita czar Amit Malviya took to social media platform X (formely Twitter) and wondered why, what he called was, 'censorship' needed for letters Nehru wrote to Edwina Mountbatten.

The personal equation between India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the country's last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, is one that still evokes curiosity ...

According to a 1988 article in India Today, Nehru's letters to Lady Mountbatten began in 1948, when Mountbattens left India, and went on till 1961, when she died.