Lord Mountbatten On Gandhi

The earl mountbatten of burma pays tribute to mahatma gandhi in a special celebration of his life that took place in the royal albert hall in london. As a former british royal navy officer and the 1st earl mountbatten of burma lord mountbatten represented colonialism and everything that gandhi opposed in a political sense but although their relationship was initially strained after mountbatten was appointed viceroy of india on 20th february 1947 they came to respect each others achievements as human beings regardless of their political beliefs. On march 31 1947 less than two months after their arrival in india lord and lady mountbatten met gandhi.
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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 inimical.

Lord mountbatten on 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. Son of the british royal family son of queen victorias grand daughter an able sailor soldier mountbatten knew the art of dealing with the political leaders of india in a dignified way.