Lord Mountbatten Letter To Mahatma Gandhi

Address him one man boundary force for successfully 27021611. The communique that day noted this was the first occasion on which the viceroy has had the pleasure of meeting mr gandhi bereft of irreverence and condescension the simple sentence conveyed that gandhi despite his. Whatever may be said to the contrary it would be a blunder of first magnitude for the british to be party in any way whatsoever to the division of india.
lord mountbatten letter to mahatma gandhi

In letter and spirit.

Lord mountbatten letter to mahatma gandhi. Lord and lady mountbatten with mahatma gandhi 1947 given the british governments recommendations to grant independence quickly mountbatten concluded that a united india was an unachievable goal and resigned himself to a plan for partition creating the independent nations of india and pakistan. A letter to mahatma gandhi. I am grateful to you for your comments on current affairs and i will certainly bear them in mind. I am grateful to you for your comments on current affairs and i will certainly bear them in mind.

I doubt whether it would be practicable to make my special staff work out all the details of the splitting up of the departments of the government of india and a complete allotment of indias assets and liabilities but they will do everything in their power to help. The viceroys house new delhi 12th june 1947. Gandhi thank you for your letter of 1011th june. The proposal of the flag presented by the governor general louis mountbatten in 1947 included the flag of the congress but with a union jack in the canton.

The viceroys house new delhi 12th june 1947. In his letter gandhiji conveyed his support for the flag proposed by the last british viceroy of india lord mountbatten. Dear friend it strikes me that i should summarize what i said and wanted to say and left unfinished for want of time at our last sundays meeting. On august 26 1947 lord mountbatten the last viceroy of british india and frst governor general of independent india sent a letter to gandhi that said.

In bengal our forces consist of one man and there is no rioting. Gandhi thank you for your letter of 1011th june. Gandhi letter 96a. Before their momentous meeting mountbatten had written privately that the indian politician and former president of the indian national congress was unpredictable.

A real friend by the earl mountbatten of burma in the course of my life i have had the good fortune to get to know many of the worlds leaders and in my career to have served with many men of outstanding talent. In the long catalogue i recall only a few that i would describe without hesitation as truly great men. In fact early in 1947 mountbatten wrote a private report in which he claimed gandhi was promoting dangerous propaganda. Less than two months after their arrival in india lord and lady mountbatten met gandhi.

My dear gandhiji in the punjab we have 55 thousand soldiers and large scale rioting on our hands.