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Podcast: Witness: Archive 2012
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The Last Viceroy of India
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:09:04
Publish Date: 2012-08-15 04:15:00
Description: The daughter of the last British viceroy in India, Lord Mountbatten, remembers the transfer of power in 1947. Lady Pamela Hicks, who is now in her eighties, accompanied her father as he attended celebrations in both Karachi and Delhi. She remembers encounters both with Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, and Pandit Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.
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