Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Yeah, this is a bit of a problem.
What are we going to do?
And actually, but then he realised that this was going to be a real problem if Mountbatten flew back to London and said, hey, this is the plan.
And then the Indian leaders will say, we're not doing that.
Yeah.
Then we're sort of, you know, worse than back at square one.
So Mountbatten actually asked VP Menon, an Indian civil servant, to draw up an alternative to the plan that maybe they could do.
And so Menon and Nehru got together in Shimla and came up in three hours with an alternative plan.
Right.
I mean, it's not necessarily a bad position to be in.
But crucially, Nehru and, you know, many other people in Congress had for years really pushed the idea of like, no, we won't accept any of that.
We want full independence.
That's the only thing that's accepted.
Two words.
Very simple.
Get out.
That's it.
Exactly.
Full independence.
This doesn't feel like full independence.