Gandhi Jinnah Lord Mountbatten
By the time lord louis mountbatten first met edwina in 1920 she was a leading member of london society.
Gandhi jinnah lord mountbatten. Stories about jawaharlal nehru and edwina mountbattens love affair are abundant. Nehru approved of the film and promised to help support its production but his death in 1964 was one of the films many setbacks. Her maternal grandfather died in 1921 leaving her 2 million equivalent to 894 million in 2019 and his palatial london townhouse brook house at a time when her future husbands naval salary was 610 a year equivalent to 27262 in 2019.
And when mountbattens timeline offered the prospect of attaining independence soon sentiments took a different turn. After the meeting in a statement to the press on april 26 gandhi said mr hoovers flying visit to india has excited considerable interest and possibly hope. He tried to work out a political solution of the problem.
He was not particularly qualified to hold that position especially when it came to overseeing the decolonization of india. During his meeting with mountbatten gandhi asked mountbatten to invite jinnah to form a new central government but mountbatten never uttered a word of gandhis ideas to jinnah. While he was appointed with the expectation that and independent india would remain united he quickly came to believe that was going to be impossible.
Both mohammed ali jinnah and lord mountbatten wanted to become governor general of pakistan bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman wrote in his just out memoirs in which he mentioned mahatma gandhi as. It was at the imperial that. Mahatma gandhi with lord and lady mountbatten.
Immediately after his arrival on 24th march lord mountbatten started discussions with indian political leaders. A man with grasp forecast and understanding he analyzed the complexity of the political situation of india. Jesus christ lord mountbatten britains last viceroy in india and indias first governor general said in al public tribute on gandhis death.
He was able to meet prime minister nehru and his daughter indira gandhi through a connection with lord louis mountbatten the last viceroy of india. Which is why even today we hear quiet a number of people who are vocal about the partition. Conspiracies have been floating around for years now.
Some blame mahatma gandhi some blame lord and lady mountbatten and some blame mohammad ali jinnah.