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Viceroy's House whitewashes Lord Mountbatten. Lord Mountbatten (left) is seen with Mahatma Gandhi and Edwina Mountbatten (right)The number who died in the appalling violence following India’s independence and its partition is still disputed, but most historians believe it was a million civilians or more. What is not in doubt is that they died in the most horrifying circumstances.

Arson, torture, mass rape, desecration of temples and indiscriminate murder were commonplace after the Indian Empire was divided in 1. India (mostly Sikh and Hindu) and Pakistan (Muslim). As many as 1. 2 million people were uprooted in the largest human migration in history, as civilians found themselves on the wrong side of the new border and travelled to their new nation state, often encountering — and butchering — those of different religious persuasions heading in the opposite direction. The bloodbath followed a nationalist struggle that had lasted for decades and will forever remain a dark stain on Britain’s colonial legacy, with accusation and counter- accusation being thrown over the question of responsibility.

The latest contribution to the debate comes in the form of the new film Viceroy’s House. Viceroy's House, a new film depicting the division of the India Empire stars Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten (left) and Gillian Anderson as Edwina Mountbatten (right)The film is a ficitionalised version of the partition between India and Pakistan in the 1.

Set against the backdrop of looming partition, it is a fictionalised version of events in the 3. Lutyens palace in Delhi of the Indian Empire’s last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who had been appointed to administer self- rule. In one way, it is rather like a Downton of the East, with plenty of below- stairs intrigue — the palace had more than 5. Hugh Bonneville (who played the liege of Downton) portraying Mountbatten alongside a crisp- accented Gillian Anderson as his Vicereine, Edwina. When the film concentrates on the melodrama of a handsome new Hindu manservant falling for a beautiful Muslim girl, it combines Bollywood romance with a good deal of period character.

But whenever it gets involved in partition politics, it is historically and politically repugnant, promoting conspiracy theories and peddling vile falsehoods. Lord Mountbatten is seen with Edwina and Mahatma Gandhi in the garden of the Viceroy's House in New Dehli in 1.

The new film blames Sir Winston Churchill and his faithful, honest wartime military secretary Hastings Ismay of being responsible for the massacres. Worst, without any evidence it blames Sir Winston Churchill and his faithful, honest wartime military secretary Hastings Ismay of being responsible for the massacres of innocent men, women and children during the partition of India. Yet it absolves from blame the man who was primarily responsible — Louis Mountbatten himself. It is worth reminding ourselves of the true horror of the months following independence. Before the euphemistically named ‘difficulties’ of partition were settled, houses were burnt and looted in the presence of policemen; women and children were flung from moving trains; the district engineer of Lahore was attacked in his office, tied to a post and sawn into pieces; patients were murdered in their hospital beds; babies were taken from their mothers, cut in half and returned to them; villages were mortar- bombed.

Furthermore, there were mass suicides; Sikhs were forcibly circumcised; mobs stamped people to death; corpses were thrown into wells to defile water supplies; people were ordered to stand or sit in long rows to be shot one by one; and children were burnt alive in pits. The film has drawn on a book called The Shadow Of The Great Game by Narendra Singh Sarila, a former aide- de- camp of Mountbatten. Its historical consultant is Lady Pamela Hicks, Mountbatten’s daughter. When Mountbatten reached India than he advanced the timetable for partition by nearly a year, to August 1. So it went on, week after genocidal week.

The anarchy reached a scale where the authorities were able to do no more than note down reports of slaughters. Typical was a report from the commanding officer of the Second Battalion of the First Gurkhas. They had discovered a train in the Punjab filled with 2.

Muslims who had been ambushed by Sikhs.‘The majority of wounds had been caused by sword and spear thrusts,’ the report said. The victims included ‘a small girl aged four or five with both legs hacked off above the knees but still alive; a pregnant woman with her baby ripped out of her womb — she died; an old man who had served in the Hong Kong- Singapore Royal Artillery with six spear wounds and still alive.’This was the reality of what Mountbatten was to call India’s ‘unbelievably happy beginning’. And the film squarely places Churchill in the frame for the massacres. It claims that, in an unwanted partition plan drawn up by Churchill, Pakistan was ‘conjured out of thin air’ solely to provide access to Middle Eastern oil for the scheming, evil British and ensure that Russia did not get its hands on the port of Karachi.

As well as this baseless Anglophobic conspiracy theory, it depicts the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, as a puppet of the British and completely ignores the struggle for an independent Pakistan that had been taking place for decades. The film has drawn on a book called The Shadow Of The Great Game by Narendra Singh Sarila, a former aide- de- camp of Mountbatten. Its historical consultant is Lady Pamela Hicks, Mountbatten’s daughter. As Churchill’s biographer and a historian who studied Mountbatten’s disastrous role in India for my book Eminent Churchillians, I have seen a mountain of evidence to show the Viceroy’s handling of partition was nothing short of a catastrophe. There were rumours that Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina were having an affair, which led to Mountbatten being profoundly biased towards India and against Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten was quoted as saying: '‘When Nehru started to call Edwina and me his “dear friends”, I began to get the feeling we were halfway home'When, in February 1.

Labour postwar Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the Commons that Mountbatten was to be the next Viceroy, the appointee himself had just delivered a speech to the Joint Services Staff College. On hearing the news, his audience burst into applause and Mountbatten replied modestly: ‘It is not a matter for applause, I assure you.’He had hit upon the cold truth. Attlee had said that Britain would hand over to an Indian government ‘capable of maintaining peace’ no later than the end of June 1.

The allocation of a mere 1. British presence would have imposed fearful strains on an already overstretched civil administration.

Yet no sooner had Mountbatten reached India than he advanced the timetable for partition by nearly a year, to August 1. The new partition date meant that Cyril Radcliffe, the London lawyer whose job it was to draw the frontier between India and Pakistan, was given an unreasonably short length of time to complete his task. He had never set foot in India before and later said he could not have done the job properly even in two years.

Mountbatten gave him 4. In addition, Mountbatten was profoundly biased towards India and against Pakistan. In the new film, however, there is not the tiniest hint that Edwina was having an affair with Nehru — which understandably aroused suspicions among Muslims, who feared Nehru had a big influence over the Viceroy. By contrast, Mountbatten and Jinnah (the Muslim League leader) failed to establish a rapport. From their first meeting on April 5, 1. Mountbatten and Jinnah (the Muslim League leader) failed to establish a rapport.

Among the epithets used by the former to describe Jinnah were ‘psychopathic case’, ‘evil genius’, ‘b******’ and ‘lunatic’. By total contrast, he was bewitched by the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru.