{"id":10672,"date":"2017-08-14T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:36:23","slug":"viceroys-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10672","title":{"rendered":"Viceroy’s House"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 20th February, 1947, His Majesty’s Government announced their intention of transferring power in British India to Indian hands by June, 1948.<\/p>\n

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India’s last Viceroy<\/h2>\n

The film Viceroy’s House, directed by Gurinder Chadha, follows the transition of\u00a0British India to independence. It is set in the home of India’s last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten.<\/p>\n

The story has an upstairs\/downstairs quality.<\/p>\n

Upstairs the story\u00a0follows the negotiations taking place between Lord Mountbatten, politicians and dignitaries. It becomes clear that, whatever ideas Mountbatten may have had, he was being manipulated\u00a0towards\u00a0an\u00a0outcome that had been decided before his appointment to office.<\/p>\n

Downstairs the\u00a0Viceroy’s House employs\u00a0Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. The film examines the effects \u00a0of\u00a0India’s partition on the different groups and their relationships. In particular it concerns Jeet, a Hindu boy, who falls in love with Alia, a Muslim girl, and all the\u00a0obstacles that are put in the way of\u00a0their romance.<\/p>\n

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Chapter 30 of\u00a0The Indian Independence Act 1947<\/a>\u00a0partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. It\u00a0received the royal assent on 18 July 1947.<\/p>\n

Pakistan was created at midnight on 14\/15 August, at the same time as India became independent. The act states\u00a0“As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India, to be known respectively as India and Pakistan.”<\/p>\n

Due to viceroy Lord Mountbatten’s need to be in New Delhi for the transfer of power, Pakistan celebrated its formation a day ahead on 14 August 1947 to enable him to attend both events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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