India Remembered by India Hicks

Author:India Hicks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 2014-01-08T18:30:00+00:00

Rising Tensions:

July 1947

The month began badly as my father had expected to become the Governor-General of both India and Pakistan, but on the 1st July Jinnah put paid to those plans by announcing that he would become G-G of Pakistan. This left my father to decide whether to accept the offer to become G-G of India and therefore go against every non-partisan plan he had stood for in his tenure. Indeed his later acceptance of the governor-generalship of India did tarnish his impartial reputation and kindled persistent rumours that he was anti-Muslim League. A letter to Patricia dated 5th July signalled just how depressed he was with the situation: ‘I have boobed’, he wrote mournfully. It was the only time he admitted it.

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