The link between Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru might be cleared after all as the private diaries and letters of Lord and Lady Mountbatten which are within the Broadland Archive have come under the spotlight. This is a battle to drive the publication of all.
This development will furthermore open the curtain on the equity of drawing the Partition borders and the Mountbattens’ views of Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah.
Diaries belonging to the 1960s have been digitally launched four days after 22 British MPs signed a document that was tabled within the House of Commons on July 19 calling for “their publication without additional obfuscation and delay”.
According to The Times of India, “Andrew Lownie, the creator of “The Mountbattens”, has spent £250,000 (Rs 2.5 lakh) and raised £50,000 (Rs 51 lakh) by a crowdfunding marketing campaign to fund a court docket battle to get all their diaries as much as 1960, and the couple’s letters to one another, launched.”
TOI quoted a University of Southampton spokesperson saying, “After communication from the Cabinet Office, the college has been capable of making accessible on-line early diaries of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, for the interval 1918-1934, and diaries of Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1923-1934. In addition, some chosen diaries as much as 1960 have additionally now been revealed. The materials are online. As a part of the allocation of the archives in August 2011, the University was directed to maintain a small variety of the papers closed till we have been in any other case suggested. The college has at all times aimed to make public as a lot of the gathering as is feasible while balancing all its authorized obligations. They haven’t launched all of the diaries and I’ll verify if any are redacted and so they haven’t launched any of their letters to one another. So nonetheless a lot is held again. Why are they withholding the 1947/1948 diaries.”
