Mountbatten rushed into partition 10 months early with barely a thought for the consequences
Published: 09 August 2007
It may be because of the obvious parallels with Iraq today, or the fact that there is now a whole new generation of young Britons of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent who are interested in their parents' past, but the 60th anniversary next week of the partition of the Indian subcontinent has already aroused an amazing amount of media coverage here. A great deal more coverage it should be said than even the 50th anniversary in 1997 or, for that matter, than in the countries concerned. continue...
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