Lord Mountbatten

Lord Mountbatten : On February 20, 1947 Mr.Attlee, British Prime Minister declared that the British Government had decided to withdraw from India by June 1948. To prepare plans for the transfer of power, Lord Louis Mountbatten was sent to India in the place of Lord Wavell.Lord Mountbatten was able to persuade the Congress to agree to the partition of India into two parts - India and Pakistan. The Indian Independence Act of 1947 was passed in British Parliament. India attained independence on 15th August 1947. Lord Mountbatten was the first British Governor General of free India and last Viceroy of India. C.Rajagopalachari was the first and last Indian Governor-General of free India. Mountbatten was Britain’s supreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia in World War II. He was killed in an explosion on a boat while holidaying in the Irish Republic.