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Podcast: We Effed Up
Episode: Episode 11: Louis Mountbatten
Description: Welcome to the eleventh episode of “We Effed Up!” Today, we dive back into eff ups with a death toll, as we look at how a member of the British royal family is responsible for the chaotic partition of India.SourcesKhan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale U. Press, New Haven, 2007.Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. The Proudest Day: India’s Long Road to Independence. W. W. Norton, New York, 1998/Singh, Jaswant. Jinnah: India, Partition, and Independence. Oxford U. Press, Oxford, 2009.Sordesai, Damodar. India: The Definitive History. Westview, Boulder, 2007.Talbot...