The last Viceroy of India

Witness History

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The daughter of the last British Viceroy in India, Lord Mountbatten, remembers the transfer of power in 1947. Lady Pamela Hicks accompanied her father as he attended celebrations in both Karachi and Delhi. She remembers encounters both with Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, and Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. Lady Hicks spoke to Louise Hidalgo in 2012. Photo shows Lord and Lady Mountbatten travelling by carriage and shaking hands with crowds in the streets of New Delhi on the 15th August 1947. Credit: Getty Images.

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0:52.7	All this week we're bringing you programs about the partition of India,
0:56.2	which happened 75 years ago on the 15th of August 1947.
1:01.2	It led to the creation of two independent nations,
1:04.4	India and Pakistan.
1:06.4	Lady Pamela Hicks was at independent celebrations in both Karachi and Delhi.
1:11.0	She tells Louise Hidalgo about her father, Lord Mount Baton,
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