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Exhibition - Panel 2
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Legacy of Partition 1947-2009 ExhibitionPanel 2 : Mountbatten and the speeding up of Partition, March-August 1947 Amritsar riot damage, March 1947
What Leicestershire knew ….WOMEN FLEE FROM LAHORE
Leicester Evening Mail, 20 May 1947, p. 1. ...The communal rioting in Lahore has grown worse, with gun battles between rioters and police in which 18 people were killed and 24 injured. British and Indian troops patrolled the city’s almost deserted central streets. MORE RIOTS AS VICEROY FLIES TO INDIA
Leicester Evening Mail, 30 May 1947 ...From Amritsar, Sikh Holy City in the Punjab, it was announced that communal disturbances there since 5 March had caused 247 deaths and injury to 519. HOLY CITY BLAZES
Leicester Mercury 14 Aug. 1947 p. 5 Within the last three days 200 people have lost their lives in the strife in Lahore. Troops patrolling the city last night, in the light of burning buildings, opened fire several times on rioters at the end of a day of looting, stabbing and arson. All night the sky was reddened by fires in Amritsar, the Sikh Holy City in the Punjab, where troops fired several times. Countdown to Independence. Acceptance of sorts by the Indian leaders of the Attlee-Mountbatten Partition Plan, 2 June 1947 Nehru (left) and Jinnah (right) with Lord Ismay and Mountbatten
 ‘I had a lot of time for Gandhi, I thought he was an excellent chap… to hear him speak, he was excellent … if only people would listen, things would be fine. I thought that Mountbatten had a most difficult job. I think he tried to be extremely fair. The chappie [Radcliffe] who drew up the map[for] Partition, had got an impossible task … We didn't think there was going to be this wrangling, this division between the Hindus and the Muslims…’ Lt Col Larry Ball THE TIMETABLE OF PARTITION3 June 1947: British Government appoints Sir Cyril Radcliffe as chairman of the Boundary Commissions for the Punjab and Bengal.
8 July 1947: Radcliffe arrives in Delhi (his first and last visit to India). 13 Aug. 1947: Radcliffe submits his report (the Partition maps). 14, 15 Aug. 1947: Pakistan and India were divided into separate independent ‘dominions’. 17 Aug. 1947: public announcement of the Radcliffe Boundary Awards.  ‘When we were in Lucknow, they started having some riots ... it always seemed to start with the students … even there, if you knew something was going to happen you just didn't go into town, you stayed where you were. The army were all in cantonments so you just didn't venture out … Mrs Helen Long
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