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Mostly under the (non-)guidance of one Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the one described as "every inch the King". https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/25/1/
by vinnyvichy 2y ago
Mostly under the (non-)guidance of one Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the one described as "every inch the King".
https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/25/1/89/151/Generations-of-Memory-Remembering-Partition-in https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/25/1/89/151/Gene...
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI am not very familiar with the backstory here. Are you saying one person pushed for this? I assumed it was a purposeful strategy of the crown, for a departing colonizer (Britain) to weaken a former vassal state that might otherwise seek revenge for hundreds of years of colonial rule.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoHe didn't push for this, but he was tasked to see Partition through, and he bungled the job, hence "non- guidance". Maybe no fault of his, but you can get a deeper nuance of the larger issues at play by thinking about how he personally could have otherwise done an okay job. Taking the maxim to not assume malice to its pedantic conclusion. Plus, it's easier to think about a constrained space of individual actions and intentions even if the wider politics are so complex. At that moment in time, Mountbatten was perhaps the personification of the Crown (and he would have known it)