Lord Mountbatten: I tried every trick I could play... to shake Jinnah's resolve.Nothing wouldmove him from his consuming determination to realise the dream of Pakistan...The date I chose (for Independence) came out of the blue. I was determined to show I was master of the whole event.

This is paralysing in its insensitivity, the sheer horror of mountbattens casual untruthfulness, in how trivial this last viceroys approach was to a grim and unprecedented tragedy.

The partition of India, has been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. Who was/is responsible Jinnah? The congress party? Or the British? Jinnahs political journey began as an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity, yet ended with his becoming the sole spokesman of Muslims in India; the creator of Pakistan, the Quaid-e-Azam.