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Mountbatten, Auchinleck and the end of British Indian Army: August-November 1947
Juxtaposing the private papers of Louis Mountbatten and Claude Auchinleck, this article seeks to illuminate the crux at the centre of the reconstitution of the British Indian army into Indian and Pakistani armies, namely, their worsening relationship between April and November 1947, in view of what they saw as each other’s partisan position and its consequences, the closure of Auchinleck’s office and his departure from India. In doing so in considerable detail, it brings to fore yet another aspect of that fraught period of transition at the end of which the British Indian Empire was transformed into the dominions of India and Pakistan and showcases the peculiar predilections in which the British found themselves during the process of transfer of power.
History
School
- Social Sciences
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- Politics and International Studies
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Britain and the WorldVolume
12Issue
2Pages
172-198Citation
ANKIT, R., 2019. Mountbatten, Auchinleck and the end of British Indian Army: August-November 1947. Britain and the World, 12 (2), pp. 172-198.Publisher
Edinburgh University PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Britain and the World. The Version of Record is available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/brw.2019.0325.Acceptance date
2018-09-07Publication date
2019-08-31Copyright date
2019ISSN
2043-8567eISSN
2043-8575Language
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