The Mountbatten Plan: How June 3 sealed the Partition of India

At the historic conference in New Delhi on June 07, 1947 at which Lord Mountbatten disclosed Britain's "partition" plan for India. (left to right) Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Ismay, Adviser to the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and M.A. Jinnah, President of the All-India Muslim League. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives On June 3, 1947, the British government proposed a blueprint for the partition of colonial India. Known as the the Mountbatten Plan, named after the then Viceroy, the plan after several rounds of discussions culminated into the Indian Independence Act of 1947, which marked the official end of British rule and brought along with it a defining chapter in the history of the Indian subcontinent.Signed by the British Parliament, this Act set the date for the transfer of power to August 1