Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India, passed away after suffering a heart attack at age 74. Nehru is widely known as ...

(How the British East India Company became the world ... George VI sent his cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, to India in March 1947 to manage Britain’s retreat. (How the Commonwealth arose ...

After the Partition of British India, as borders were being drawn in blood and haste, Maharaja Hanvant Singh of Jodhpur—just ...

Sir Thomas celebrated his 100th birthday last year (Jane Barlow/PA) At the time, Lord Mountbatten was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command and ordered ... when the war in Japan stopped we ...

Sir Thomas celebrated his 100th birthday last year (Jane Barlow/PA) At the time, Lord Mountbatten was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command ... we were between India and Burma.

At the time, Lord Mountbatten was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command and ordered ... when the war in Japan stopped we were between India and Burma. The ships would be available ...

Mountbatten, Cabinet Mission and Provincial Boundaries: Insights and Controversies, is a notable addition to Partition studies, placing the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, at the centre ...

The documents, studied by Middle East Eye in the National Archives ... spoken to Lord Hastings Ismay, adviser to India's governor-general Lord Louis Mountbatten (formerly the last viceroy of ...

The textbook reads: “Under the Third June Partition Plan, rulers of the princely states were given final authority to decide the future of their respective states….Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Viceroy ...

And without the contribution of Empire and Commonwealth countries, final victory against Germany and Japan might never have been possible ...