By: Rohan Fernando

Rohan Fernando — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:08:38 +0000

I enjoyed the film and much of it was reasonably historically accurate but its criticisms of Churchill and Ismay at the end were unfounded. Though Churchill’s actions as PM hampered constitutional progress in India, he did not play a significant role after the War. The favored option of the Attlee government, the Cabinet Mission Plan, would have left a united India, but failed to get the agreement of the Indian leaders. The plan eventually adopted was proposed by V P Menon, Mountbatten’s Constitutional Adviser. Churchill played no part in the formulation or implementation of this plan. A critique of the historical accuracy of the film is available in the website Forgotten Raj.

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