⁶²⁰ All Mountbatten's letters but the last are written from the Viceroy's House, New Delhi, and all Listowel's letters from the India Office in London. They can be found in the British Library's India Office Records and Private Papers section under the reference MSS Eur C357. Volume XII of The Transfer of Power 1942–47: Constitutional Relations between Britain and India, Nicholas Mansergh, editor-in-chief (London: HMSO, 1983), is a particularly good resource for the high politics of the final days of British rule in India and Listowel's part in it. It complements this appendix very well.

⁶²¹ Vallabhbhai Patel, commonly known as Sardar Patel (1875–1950), Indian Congress politician, Home Member of the Interim Government, 1946–1947; after independence, deputy prime minister and minister of home affairs, 1947–1950.

⁶²² C.F.V. Williams, Indian Civil Service (ICS).

⁶²³ Patel.

⁶²⁴ Sir Andrew Clow (1890–1957), ICS; governor of Assam, 1942–1947.

⁶²⁵ Not included here.

⁶²⁶ Sir Frederick Burrows (1887–1973), trade unionist and colonial administrator; governor of Bengal, 1946–1947.

⁶²⁷ Not included here.

⁶²⁸ Not included here.

⁶²⁹ Sir Chandulal Trivedi (1893–1980), ICS; administrator; governor of Orissa, 1946–1947; after independence, governor of Punjab (India), 1947–1953, and governor of Andhra Pradesh, 1953–1957.

⁶³⁰ Sir Muhammad Akbar Hydari (1894–1948), ICS; administrator; governor of Assam, 1947.

⁶³¹ Sir Evan Jenkins (1896–1985), ICS; governor of the Punjab, 1946–1947.

⁶³² Sir Olaf Caroe (1892–1981), ICS; governor of the North-West Frontier Province, 1946–1947.

⁶³³ Sir Francis Mudie (1890–1976), ICS; governor of the Sindh, 1946–1947; after independence, governor of West Punjab (Pakistan), 1947–1949.

⁶³⁴ Liaquat Ali Khan (1895–1951), Muslim League politician; first prime minister of Pakistan, 1947–1951; assassinated 1951.

⁶³⁵ Mir Nawaz Jung, official in the service of the nizam and government of Hyderabad.

⁶³⁶ Sir Mirza Ismail (1883–1959), official in certain Indian princely states; Dewan of Hyderabad, 1946–1947.

⁶³⁷ George Abell (1904–1989), later Sir George Abell, ICS, and Whitehall civil servant; private secretary to the viceroy (PSV), 1946–1947.

⁶³⁸ Ronald Brockman (1909–1999), later Vice-Admiral Sir Ronald Brockman, naval officer and administrator; personal secretary to Lord Mountbatten and private secretary to the governor general of India, 1947–1948.

⁶³⁹ A name sometimes used for India (as opposed to Pakistan).

⁶⁴⁰ John Matthai (1886–1959), Indian economist and official; Industries Member in the Interim Government, 1946–1947; finance minister in independent India, 1949–1950.

⁶⁴¹ Sir Conrad Corfield (1893–1980), ICS, political adviser to the viceroy as Crown Representative to the Princely States, 1945–1947.

⁶⁴² Sir Francis Wylie (1891–1970), ICS; governor of the United Provinces, 1945–1947.

⁶⁴³ Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), officer and administrator; commander-in-chief in India, 1941 and 1943–1947; supreme commander of Indian and Pakistani Forces, 1947.

⁶⁴⁴ H.S. Suhrawardy (1892–1963), Muslim League politician; chief minister of Bengal, 1946–1947; and later prime minister of Pakistan, 1956–1957.

⁶⁴⁵ Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley (1895–1978), legal scholar and Labour peer; lord-in-waiting, 1946–1950.

⁶⁴⁶ Sir Hugh Weightman (1898–1949), ICS, served in Assam and Baluchistan.

⁶⁴⁷ In October 1946.

⁶⁴⁸ William Christie, ICS; chief commissioner of Delhi, 1945–1947.

⁶⁴⁹ Sir Osman Ali Khan (1886–1967), nizam of Hyderabad from 1911.

⁶⁵⁰ Major-General Lewis Lyne (1899–1970), British officer.

⁶⁵¹ Tribhuvan Shah (1906–1955), king of Nepal, 1911–1955.

⁶⁵² Sir Terence Shone (1894–1965), diplomat; high commissioner to India, 1946–1947; first high commissioner to independent India, 1947–1948.

⁶⁵³ Sir Angus Gillan (1885–1981), colonial service and official; served in the Commonwealth and Empire Division of the British Council, 1941–1949.

⁶⁵⁴ Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai (1891–1954), ICS, and Indian Administrative Service; later secretary general of the Ministry of External and Commonwealth Relations, 1947–1952.

⁶⁵⁵ This plan offered elements of self-determination and autonomy to a United India of States and Provinces, but Nehru on learning of it did not view it favourably. Mountbatten left for London on 18 May for consultations with the Cabinet and others.

⁶⁵⁶ Sir John Colville (1894–1954), later 1st Baron Clydesmuir, National Liberal MP and minister; colonial administrator; secretary of state for Scotland, 1938–1940; governor of Bombay, 1943–1948 and acting viceroy, 1945, 1946 and 1947.

⁶⁵⁷ Jagjivan Ram (1908–1986), Indian politician and minister; Labour Member in the Interim Government, 1946–1947; minister and deputy prime minister in independent India, 1977–1979.

⁶⁵⁸ Sir S.V. Ramamurthy (1888–1964), ICS; chief secretary to Madras, 1939–1943, and acting governor of Bombay, 1947.

⁶⁵⁹ The so called 3rd June Plan accepted the principle of partition of British India and that the successor states of India and Pakistan should be granted dominion status.

⁶⁶⁰ V.P. Menon (1894–1966), ICS, and Indian Administrative Service; reforms commissioner, 1942–1947 and secretary at the States Ministry, 1947–1951.

⁶⁶¹ Eric Drummond, 7th earl of Perth (1876–1951), diplomat and international official.

⁶⁶² Not included here.

⁶⁶³ Not included here.

⁶⁶⁴ Sir Walter Lamb (1882–1961), secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, 1913–1951.

⁶⁶⁵ George Tomlinson (1890–1952), Labour MP and minister; minister of education, 1947–1951.

⁶⁶⁶ Maulana Abdul Azad (1888–1958), Indian Congress politician and minister; after independence, minister of education, 1947–1958.

⁶⁶⁷ This probably refers to I.I. Chundrigar (1897–1960), Muslim League politician; Commerce Member in the Interim Government, 1946–1947; prime minister of Pakistan, 1957.

⁶⁶⁸ Not included here.

⁶⁶⁹ Henry F. Grady (1882–1957), American diplomat; US Ambassador to India, 1947–1948.

⁶⁷⁰ Not included here.

⁶⁷¹ Sir Cyril Radcliffe (1899–1977), later Viscount Radcliffe, jurist and official; headed the Punjab and Bengal Boundary Commissions, 1947; lord of appeal in ordinary, 1949–1964.

⁶⁷² Sir David Monteath (1887–1961), civil servant; under-secretary of state for India and for Burma, 1941–1947.

⁶⁷³ Sir Edward Bridges (1892–1969), later 1st Baron Bridges, civil servant; secretary to the Cabinet, 1938–1946; permanent secretary to the Treasury and head of the home Civil Service, 1945–1956.

⁶⁷⁴ V.K. Krishna Menon (1896–1974), Indian diplomat and minister; secretary of the India League (London), 1927–1947; Indian high commissioner to London, 1947–1952 and minister of defence, 1957–1962.

⁶⁷⁵ Hector McNeil (1907–1955), Labour MP and minister; parliamentary under-secretary of state, Foreign Office, 1945–1946; minister of state, 1946–1950, and secretary of state for Scotland, 1950–1951.

⁶⁷⁶ Not included here.

⁶⁷⁷ Lieutenant General Sir Reginald Savory (1894–1980), British Indian Army officer.

⁶⁷⁸ Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbassi (1904–1966), nawab of Bahawalpur from 1907.

⁶⁷⁹ Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962), Indian physician and politician; chief minister of Bengal (India), 1948–1962.

⁶⁸⁰ Not included here.

⁶⁸¹ Sir Leslie Scott KC (1869–1950), jurist and Conservative politician; legal adviser to the Chamber of Princes, 1927–1931.

⁶⁸² Committee headed by Sir Harcourt Butler, which examined the relationship between British India and the Princely States. Its report was presented in 1929.

⁶⁸³ General Sir Geoffrey Scoones (1893–1975), British Indian Army officer and official.

⁶⁸⁴ Commission headed by Lord Soulbury in 1944–1945 to propose constitutional reforms for Ceylon.

⁶⁸⁵ Not included here.

⁶⁸⁶ Sir Hamidullah Khan (1894–1960), nawab of Bhopal from 1926; chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, 1944–1947.

⁶⁸⁷ Not included here.

⁶⁸⁸ Herbert Morrison (1888–1965), later Lord Morrison of Lambeth, Labour MP and minister; home secretary, 1940–1945 and lord president of the council, 1945–1951.

⁶⁸⁹ Sir Zafrullah Khan (1893–1985), Indian (and later Pakistani) jurist and politician; foreign minister of Pakistan, 1947–1954.

⁶⁹⁰ Sir Paul Patrick (1888–1975), civil servant; assistant under-secretary of state for India, 1941–1947.

⁶⁹¹ Not included here.

⁶⁹² Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Nye (1895–1967), army officer, colonial administrator and official; governor of Madras, 1946–1948, and high commissioner to India, 1948–1952.

⁶⁹³ W.H. Morris-Jones (1918–1999), academic; constitutional adviser to the viceroy, 1947; director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 1966–1983.

⁶⁹⁴ This was the question of whether there should be a joint governor general of India and Pakistan (Mountbatten's preference and a role he wanted) or two separate ones.

⁶⁹⁵ Sir George Cunningham (1888–1963), colonial administrator; governor of the North-West Frontier Province, 1937–1939 and 1939–1946. He returned to be governor of the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1947–1948.

⁶⁹⁶ Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn (1880–1964), colonial administrator; high commissioner in Egypt and the Sudan, 1934–1936; ambassador to Egypt and high commissioner to the Sudan, 1936–1946; and special commissioner to South East Asia, 1946–1948.

⁶⁹⁷ General Sir Robert Lockhart (1893–1981), British officer; commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Dominion of India, 1947–1948.

⁶⁹⁸ Allan Noble (1908–1982), later Sir Allan Noble, Conservative MP and junior minister; parliamentary under-secretary of state for Commonwealth Relations, 1955–1956.

⁶⁹⁹ Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyer (1879–1966), Indian official; Dewan of Travancore, 1936–1947.

⁷⁰⁰ James Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour (1870–1949), Conservative MP and peer.

⁷⁰¹ Field Marshal Jan Smuts (1870–1950), South African army officer and United Party politician; prime minister of South Africa, 1919–1924 and 1939–1948.

⁷⁰² Asiatic Land Tenure Act 1946. The South African law restricted land ownership and voting rights of South African Indians.

⁷⁰³ Which is indeed what happened.

⁷⁰⁴ Daniel F. Malan (1874–1959), South African politician and National Party leader; prime minister of South Africa, 1948–1954.

⁷⁰⁵ Roy Robinson, Baron Robinson (1883–1952), chairman of the Forestry Commission, 1932–1952.

⁷⁰⁶ Not included here.

⁷⁰⁷ Not included here.

⁷⁰⁸ Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser (1890–1956), naval officer; commander-in-chief of the East Indies Station, 1946–1948.

⁷⁰⁹ Assassinated on 19 July 1947.

⁷¹⁰ Rajendra Prasad (1884–1963), Indian Congress politician; Food and Agriculture Member of the Interim Government, 1946–1947; first president of India, 1950–1962.

⁷¹¹ Not included here.

⁷¹² Alan Campbell-Johnson (1913–1998), press attaché to the viceroy and governor general of India, 1947–1948.

⁷¹³ Robert Stimson, journalist.

⁷¹⁴ Commonwealth Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty in Canberra, August–September 1947.

⁷¹⁵ Sir Benegal Rama Rau (1889–1969), Indian diplomat and official; Indian ambassador to Tokyo, 1947–1948.

⁷¹⁶ Sir Laurence Grafftey-Smith (1892–1989), diplomat; high commissioner to Pakistan, 1947–1951.

⁷¹⁷ Sir Hugh Dow (1886–1978), ICS; governor of Bihar, 1946–1947.

⁷¹⁸ Sir Archibald Carter (1887–1958), civil servant; permanent under-secretary of state for India, 1947.

⁷¹⁹ Sir Ahmad Yar Khan Ahmedzai (1902–1979), khan of Kalat,1933–1955.

⁷²⁰ Not included here.

⁷²¹ Tashi Namgyal (1893–1963), chogyal of Sikkim, 1914–1963.

⁷²² Not included here.

⁷²³ Army formed of Indian nationalists that sought to expel Britain from India by military means with support from Japan during World War II.

⁷²⁴ Master Tara Singh (1885–1967), Sikh politician.

⁷²⁵ Most Reverend George Hubback (1882–1955), Anglican clergyman, bishop of Calcutta and metropolitan of India, 1945–1950.

⁷²⁶ Bahadur Singh (1920–1977), maharaja of Bundi from 1945.

⁷²⁷ Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Philip in November 1947.

⁷²⁸ Sir Yadvinder Singh Mahendra Bahadur (1913–1974), maharaja of Patiala from 1938.

⁷²⁹ Shahji II Puar (1910–1983), maharaja of Kolhapur from 1947.

⁷³⁰ Lord Jowitt.

⁷³¹ The British Nationality Act 1948 was one consequence of these discussions.

⁷³² Godfrey Nicholson (1901–1991), later Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1st baronet, Conservative MP.

⁷³³ Rhys Hopkin Morris (1888–1956), later Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris, Liberal MP.

⁷³⁴ See Letter 6, paragraph 9.

⁷³⁵ Thomas Catto, 1st Baron Catto (1879–1959), businessman and official; governor of the Bank of England, 1944–1949.

⁷³⁶ Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), later Lord Wyatt, Labour MP.

⁷³⁷ Sir Frederick Bourne (1891–1977), ICS; governor of East Bengal (Pakistan), 1947–1950.

⁷³⁸ Sir Hari Singh Dogra (1895–1961), maharaja of Kashmir from 1925.

⁷³⁹ Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar (1908–1961), maharaja of Indore from 1926.

⁷⁴⁰ Sir Udaibhan Singh Deo (1893–1954), maharaj-rana of Dholpur from 1943.

⁷⁴¹ Sir Walter Monckton (1891–1965), later 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, legal adviser to the nizam of Hyderabad, 1933–1936 and 1946–1948; later Conservative MP and minister.

⁷⁴² Opportunity to withdraw from an obligation or contract.

⁷⁴³ Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading (1889–1960), Liberal peer and later junior minister.

⁷⁴⁴ Geoffrey Lunt (1885–1948), bishop of Salisbury, 1946–1948.

⁷⁴⁵ Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode (1869–1960), army officer and official.

⁷⁴⁶ Sir Patrick Spens (1885–1973), later 1st Baron Spens, jurist and Conservative MP; chief justice of India, 1943–1947.

⁷⁴⁷ Niall Macpherson (1908–1987), later 1st Baron Drumalbyn, National Liberal MP and later junior minister.

⁷⁴⁸ Not included here.

⁷⁴⁹ H.I. Rahimtoola (1912–1991), Pakistani diplomat and minister; first Pakistani high commissioner to London, 1947–1952.

⁷⁵⁰ In recognition that Mountbatten was no longer viceroy, but now governor general of the independent realm of India, the official residence was appropriately renamed, and at the top of this letter ‘The Viceroy's House’ has been struck through and replaced with ‘Government House’.

⁷⁵¹ Sir N.R. Pillai (1898–1992), ICS, and later Indian Administrative Service and Indian diplomat.

⁷⁵² K.P.S. Menon (1898–1982), ICS, and later Indian Administrative Service.

⁷⁵³ K.K. Chettur (1901–1956), ICS, and later Indian Administrative Service and Indian diplomat.

⁷⁵⁴ General Sir Frank Messervy (1893–1974), army officer; commander-in-chief of the Pakistani armed forces, 1947–1948.

⁷⁵⁵ Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh.

⁷⁵⁶ Sir Eric Miéville (1896–1971), civil servant and Colonial Service; senior member of the viceroy's staff, 1947.

⁷⁵⁷ John Christie (1905–1983), ICS, joint private secretary to the viceroy, 1947.

⁷⁵⁸ Ian Scott (1909–2002), later Sir Ian Scott, ICS and later diplomat; deputy private secretary to the viceroy, 1945–1947.

⁷⁵⁹ Peter Scott, ICS, assistant private secretary to the viceroy, 1947.