Mountbatten Nehru Jinnah

Edwina mountbatten may have been close to nehru and jinnah but not so close as to be able to blackmail them.

Mountbatten nehru jinnah. Jawaharlal nehru with edwina and promila mountbatten during their holiday in simla may 1948. He said for generations we have dreamt and struggled for a full independent and united india. The staff still maintain the table where jinnah and jawaharlal nehru sat. It was at the imperial that gandhi jinnah nehru and lord mountbatten met to discuss the partition of india.

So instead of blaming jinnah for the partition he says it was nehru and patel who decided to get on with it quickly. It is naive to believe that partition was the handiwork of the british. Lord mountbatten was the first person to raise the issue of the future of the state of jammu and kashmir with maharaja hari singh once the partition plan was announced on june 3 1947. The talks were held on 1 november 1947 five days after india dispatched its troops to defend kashmir against a pakistan backed tribal invasion.

There was a gap of over 10 years of age each between the three of them with jinnah being the oldest then nehru and then edwina. Jawaharlal nehru in his broadcast speech commended the mountbatten proposal. Mountbattens efforts to persuade jinnah these excerpts make clear firstly that in april 1947 mountbatten spent a lot of time and effort trying to persuade jinnah that he would get a bigger. Congress was impatient for power.

The proposal to allow certain parts secedes if they so will is painful for any of us to contemplate. Mountbattens in government house new delhi at swearing in of jawaharlal nehru as the first prime minister of independent india 15 august 1947. Rajiv dixits claim that jinnah nehru and edwina were college mates is totally false. The trap was laid as per the conspiracy theory of late rajiv dixit it suggests that edwina had an affair with both nehru and jinnah.

Edwina was a little girl of 9 11 years when nehru finished his college. The jinnahmountbatten talks were bilateral talks held in lahore between the governor generals muhammad ali jinnah and louis mountbatten of pakistan and india to address the kashmir dispute.