Lord Mountbatten And Jinnah
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 disputethe talks were held on 1 november 1947 five days after india dispatched its troops to defend kashmir against a pakistan backed tribal invasionin the talks mountbatten presented indias offer to hold.
Lord mountbatten and jinnah. 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. But a curious and frankly baffling theory that has been floating around is the one that involves nehru jinnah and lady mountbatten. The bitter experience of working with the muslim league the total breakdown of administration and jinnahs uncompromising attitude on the issue of partition influenced mostly the congress to accept the partition.
After holding discussions with the congress and the league members lord mountbatten announced the plan on 3rd june 1947. Admiral of the fleet louis francis albert victor nicholas mountbatten 1st earl mountbatten of burma born prince louis of battenberg. Jinnah however continued with his furtive plans his public pronouncements completely at variance with his secret dealings and machinations.
How nehru patel and mountbatten made india printed with permission from the publishers rupa publications. Muhammad ali jinnah mhmd aal jnah 1st governor general of pakistan in office august 15 1947 september 11 1948 monarch george vi prime minister liaquat ali khan preceded by the earl mountbatten of burma as viceroy of india succeeded by khwaja nazimuddin 1st speaker of the national assembly of pakistan in office august 11 1947 september 11 1948 preceded by none succeeded by maulvi tamizuddin. On return from his trip to srinagar june 19 23 1947 mountbatten briefed his staff that hari singh was politically very elusive and avoided meeting on last day pretending colic pain.
A plausible explanation for mountbattens strenuous seemingly altruistic efforts with jinnah in april 1947 is that mountbatten was not really urging jinnah to accept a united sovereign india with a. No two persons could have been more dissimilar than quaid e azam mohammed ali jinnah and lord louis mountbatten the last british viceroy and governor general of india. By the time lord louis mountbatten first met edwina in 1920 she was a leading member of london society.