![]() ![]() Īfter a rapid series of 133 interviews with political leaders between 24 March and 6 May, Mountbatten decided that the Cabinet Mission framework had become untenable and formulated an alternative with the appropriate code name Plan Balkan. The idea of partition with freedom came to be widely accepted even before Mountbattens arrival. Mountbatten proved more decisive and quick than previous viceroys like Wavell, as he had been informally given much greater powers to decide things on the spot by the British government than his predecessors. ![]() Lord Louis Mountbatten replaced Lord Wavell as the last Viceroy and Governor General of India. The Indian Independence Act, 1947īritish Prime Minister Clement Atlees famous speech in the House of Commons on 20th February 1947, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for the transfer of power. But, Junagadh was an important state, with a population of 700,000, 80% of them Hindus and, predictably, ruled by a Muslim prince. It itself contained dozens of petty estates and sheikhdoms within it. Junagadh was a state on the southern-tip of Gujarat within a region called Kathiawar. ![]()
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