Mountbatten Indian Independence

Above all the princely states such as jammu and kashmir were given a choice to either join india or pakistan.

Mountbatten indian independence. Mountbatten held many. While he was alive lord mountbatten aka uncle dickie was a highly accomplished naval commander during world war ii and is perhaps best known for his role as britains final viceroy of india. On mountbattens advice india took the issue of kashmir to the newly formed united nations in january 1948. Advised by nehru mountbatten summoned a meeting of the chamber of princes on 25th july 1947 only 20 days before the declaration of independence.

Mountbatten brought forward the date of the partition from 1948 to 1947 hoping this would reduce the tensions. Lord mountbatten 1900 1979 and lady mountbatten 1901 1960 as viceroy and vicereine of india. Indian independence day 2020. This plan was the last plan for indian independence.

But the indian independence act which came into force at midnight on 15 august 1947. The june 3 plan included the principles of partition autonomy sovereignty to both nations right to make their own constitution. This year india will celebrate 74th independence day on 15 august while maintaining social distancing as per the guidelines of the government of india. When india and pakistan attained independence at midnight on the night of 1415 august 1947 mountbatten remained in new delhi for 10 months serving as the first governor general of an independent india until june 1948.

It is also called the mountbatten plan. On his arrival he realised the situation is too volatile to wait for too long and decided to grant independence to india sooner rather than later.