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Reference FCO 37/2174
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Death of Lord Mountbatten, last Viceroy and first Governor-General of India, 27 August 1979: presence of Indians at the funeral; Indian Memorial Service, 5 September 1979
Date 1979
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980
Region South Asia
Countries India, United Kingdom
Places Andhra Pradesh; Bengal; Burma (Myanmar); Chennai (Madras); Colombo; Delhi; Dhaka (Dacca); Goa; Gujarat; India; Islamabad; Kolkata (Calcutta); London; Madhya Pradesh; Mumbai (Bombay); New York; Pakistan; Punjab; Rajasthan; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces); Washington, DC; West Bengal; Yangon (Rangoon)
People Attlee, Clement; Carington, Peter (6th Baron Carrington); Churchill, Sir Winston; Desai, Morarji; Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Hussain, Zakir; Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; Narayan, Jayaprakash; Nehru, Jawaharlal ('Panditji'); Pandit, Vijaya; Thatcher, Margaret
Topics (Royal) Indian Navy; aircraft; army; assassination; battle; British Government; church; communications; customs; democracy; education; elections; foreign policy; governor-general; independence; Islam; judicial system; language; Lok Sabha (Indian House of the People); military; navy; nonalignment; oil; parliament; princely states; railway; Raj; roads; Royal Air Force; Scheduled Castes (Untouchables); trade; transport; viceroy; war; weapons
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