1947: Indian Partition : IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO
International Herald Tribune
Saturday, May 24, 1997
LONDON — The British Cabinet approved the plan of Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, to partition India into Hindu and Moslem areas as a means of organizing the country for its independence by June, 1948. Mr. Attlee's move appears, however, to have failed in its original purpose. Hindu and Moslem leaders have refused to abandon their rival claims and the nation is torn by communal disorders verging on civil war.
LONDON — The British Cabinet approved the plan of Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, to partition India into Hindu and Moslem areas as a means of organizing the country for its independence by June, 1948. Mr. Attlee's move appears, however, to have failed in its original purpose. Hindu and Moslem leaders have refused to abandon their rival claims and the nation is torn by communal disorders verging on civil war.
International Herald Tribune
Saturday, May 24, 1997
LONDON — The British Cabinet approved the plan of Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, to partition India into Hindu and Moslem areas as a means of organizing the country for its independence by June, 1948. Mr. Attlee's move appears, however, to have failed in its original purpose. Hindu and Moslem leaders have refused to abandon their rival claims and the nation is torn by communal disorders verging on civil war.
LONDON — The British Cabinet approved the plan of Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, to partition India into Hindu and Moslem areas as a means of organizing the country for its independence by June, 1948. Mr. Attlee's move appears, however, to have failed in its original purpose. Hindu and Moslem leaders have refused to abandon their rival claims and the nation is torn by communal disorders verging on civil war.
posted 3/04/2007
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