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Posted: 11 May 2024

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A Rationalistic Leader on a Land of Mystics

A deep and lasting friendship which began at their first meeting linked Jawaharlal Nehru to Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. Their close relations were a vital factor in Mountbatten’s successor and enabled him to convince the Indian leadership that the division of their country was the essential, ultimate price of their freedom.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma

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 Dinesh
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His first announcement, that he and his wife or daughter would take their morning horseback rides unescorted, sent a shock wave of horror through the o=house. It took him some time to get his way, but suddenly the Indian villagers along the route of their morning rides began to witness a spectacle so wholly unbelievable as to seem a mirage: the viceroy and vicereine of India trotting past them, waving graciously, alone and unprotected.

Then he and his wife made an even more revolutionary gesture. He did visit the home of an Indian who was not one of a handful of privileged princes. To the astonishment of all India, the viceregal couple walked into the garden party at the simple New Delhi residence of Jawaharlal Nehru. While Nehru’s aids looked on dump with disbelief, Mountbatten took Nehro by the elbow and strolled off among the gusts casually chatting and shaking hands. ~ Page 83

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 William Sutherland
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Fabulous image!
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 Don Sutherland
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Wonderful photo.
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