by India Hicks
prayer meetings 120-2, 121
fasts 187-8
assassination 194-6
funeral 192, 196, 197
cremation 197-9, 198, 199
ashes scattered 205
George VI 14, 16, 136-7
Governors’ Conferences 26, 76-8, 77, 202-3, 202
heat, effects of 61-2, 94-5,198
Hicks, India 9
Howes, Peter 164, 172
Hyderabad, problems of 106, 129
independence
see also Transfer of Power Ceremonies
boundaries 120
British troops leave 186-7
Burma 184
Churchill on 229-30
Mountbatten Plan 88, 92, 95, 100, 102-4, 103
Pakistani assets 187-8, 190
partition 104, 153
passing of Bill 124, 126
urgency of 24, 26
India
Dominion Status 102
Transfer of Power Ceremony 143-7, 145, 147, 148-9
Indian Congress Party 23-4, 70
Ismay, Sarah 161, 162
Jaipur, Maharaja of 131, 178, 180, 182, 183
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali 74-6, 75
and Muslim League 75-6
Mountbatten Plan 102
reaction to independence 139-41
Kashmir
LM visits 108, 109, 110-11
partition problems 106, 111, 130
Kashmir, Maharani of 108, 110-11
Kashmir, Yuvraj of 108, 110
Krishna Menon 92-3, 120
Lady Irwin College 26, 28, 58
Lahore riots 124, 124
letters reproduced
Attlee to Mountbatten 124-5, 126-7
Gandhi to Edwina Mountbatten 114
George VI to Mountbatten 136-7
Mountbatten to Attlee 15
Liaquat, Ali Khan 103, 156
Listowel, Earl of 166
Loh, Dr Chia Luen 107,108
Menon, V.P. 128
Mountbatten, Edwina,
Countess 18, 36, 47, 49, 131, 150, 183
and Nehru 20-3
swearing-in ceremony 46, 47, 48, 48
and fortune teller 48-50
silver wedding 122-3,123
Clinic 165
visits Punjab 166-8
United Council
leadership 208-9
leaves India 220-3, 220-9, 225-9
death 22, 83
Mountbatten family tree 6, 13, 17-18
Mountbatten, Louis, Earl 9, 13, 36, 150, 183
see also Mountbatten Plan
appointed Viceroy 14-16, 25-6
departure for India 19-20
takes up appointment 23
arrival in India 42-6, 42, 43
swearing-in ceremony 46, 47, 48, 49
meets Gandhi 69-70
meets Nehru and Jinnah 70, 72-3, 74-6
visits North West Frontier 82-5, 83
visits Punjab 84-5, 84
meets Nehru and Krishna
Menon 88-9
Kashmir problem 106, 111
silver wedding 122-3, 123
addresses Chamber of Princes 129-30, 129
Pakistani independence 134-5, 138-41, 138, 139, 140
Governor-General 142-3
Earldom 143
Indian independence 15, 143-7, 147, 148-9
visits Jaipur 180, 180, 181, 182
visits Bikaner 188-90, 189
visits Orissa 207, 207
leaves India 220-3, 221, 222-9, 225-9
returns to UK 230, 230-4
Mountbatten, Lady Pamela 10, 27
Indian impressions 26,28
pets 28-33, 29, 31
student leaders 46, 156-8
eighteenth birthday 79
canteen 79-81, 159, 169
Clinic and Dispensary 80, 81, 89, 113, 169
Hindustani lessons 95, 134
Caravan of India 95-7, 96, 97, 105, 173
Gandhi’s prayer meetings 120-2, 121
courtesy title 143
essential clerical work 168-9
‘Lady Earnestine’ 172
Princess Elizabeth’s brides maid 163, 176
leaves India 220-1, 226-7, 226, 228-9
returns to UK 234, 234
Mountbatten Plan 88, 92, 95, 100, 102-4, 103
Muslim League 24
Direct Action Day 24, 25
Jinnah and 75-6
and Partition 120
Nand, Lila 54-5, 159, 164
Nehru, Jawaharlal (‘Panditji’) 27, 71, 150, 200
meets Mountbattens 20-1
and EM 20-3
character 70, 72-3
LM consults with 88-9
Mountbatten Plan 103,104
Gandhi’s assassination 195
Neola (mongoose) 28, 29, 30, 32, 72
North West Frontier, riots 82-5
Pakistan
name proposed 24
Dominion Status 102
assets paid 187-8, 190
Palampur, Nawab of 142
Parashar, P.N. 207
Patel, Maniben 146
Patel, Vallabhbhai 73, 74, 103, 206
Prasad, Rajendra 141, 142
princely states, pre-independence 39
Princes
Chamber of 128-30, 129
post-independence 34, 106, 128-30, 185
Punjab
Boundary Force 120, 159, 161
Partition 113
refugees 160, 170
riots in 84-5, 84, 124, 124
Sikh community 159
Quit India movement 24
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril 120
Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti 222, 229
Rees, Pete 168, 169
refugees 154
attacks on 170
Delhi 165
Punjab 160, 166-8, 170
Retreat, The, Mashrobra 216
Sakrikar, Dinkar 156, 158
Sargeant, Malcolm 211-12
Scott, Captain Jim 166
Shalimar Gardens 110, 111
Sikhs 159-60
Simla see Retreat, The Viceregal Lodge
Taylor, Colonel A C 105
Transfer of Power Ceremonies
Delhi 143-7, 145, 147, 148-9
Karachi 134-5, 135, 138-41, 138, 139, 140
Viceregal Lodge 90
post-independence visits 160-3, 173-4, 213-14
pre-independence visits 88-9, 90-3, 93, 107-8
Viceroy’s House 50-2, 51, 54
daily routine at 55, 58, 60
Durbar Room 52
Moghul Gardens 59, 61
staff 44-5, 54-5, 56-7
State Dining Room 53
Ward, Elizabeth 145
Watson, Muriel 144-5, 159
Wavell, Countess 40, 44
Wavell, Lord 24, 40
Wavell, Lady Felicity 44-5
Picture credits
All of the images in this book and the cover image were sourced from the Broadlands Archive, with the exception of the following:
Corbis/Bettmann 25, 154, 157, 195; Corbis/Condé Nast Archive 178; Corbis/Hulton-Deutsch Collection 73, 171; David Duncan Douglas/Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The University of Texas at Austin 117; Getty Images/Margaret Bourke-White 52, 165; Getty Images/James Burke 131; David Hicks 59; Dana Hyde 51; Photo Division/Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting 215 bottom; RIBA Library Photographs Collection 53; SuperStock/Age Fotostock 111.
We apologise in advance for any unintentional omission or neglect and will be pleased to insert the appropriate acknowledgement for any companies or individuals in any subsequent edition of this work.
Bibliography
Alan Campbell-Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten, Atheneum 1951
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, Freedom at Midnight, Harper Collins 1975
Philip Zeigler, Mountbatten: the Official Biography, Phoenix Press 1985
Interview with Lady Pamela Hicks recorded by B R Nanda for the Nehru Memorial Mus
eum and Library, 14th October 1968
Acknowledgements
Our heartfelt thanks go to Kate Oldfield, without whom this book would not exist, and who made the writing of it such a pleasure for mother and daughter.
We are grateful to Dr. Chris Woolgar, Head of Special Collections of the Hartley Library, University of Southampton, and particularly to his senior archivist, Karen Robson. And to Lord Brabourne, our nephew and cousin who is the Chairman of the Trustees of the Mountbatten archives.
We also wish to thank Lotte Oldfield for her eye and enthusiasm.
And thanks to all the invisible hands who make books possible, especially Kate Burkhalter, for holding it all together, Anna Cheifetz, Michael Wicks and in particular Polly Powell.
Miniature Star of India brooch given as an 18th
birthday present to Pamela Mountbatten by her father
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