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From: sridhar@tekecs.UUCP (S. Sridhar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Mountbatten series
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 21:01:48 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 21:01:48 1986
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> ++
> > What we cannot argue about are historical facts. One of the  critics  of
> > the  TV  series referred to an incident in the second(?) espisode, where
> > Mountbatten and  his  wife  almost  single-handedly  pacified  an  angry
> > demonstration  by  thousands  of  armed Pathans. The critic charged that
> > this scene was ridiculous - initially,  I  tended  to  agree  with  him.
> > However,  I  changed  my  mind  when  I  found that the book "Freedom at
> > Midnight" by Collins and Lapierre (pg. 130) had an  identical  portrayal
> > of this incident. What is more, there is a photograph of the incident on
> > pg. 329. I also saw a similar description in  Tendulkar's  biography  of
> > Abdul  Ghaffar  Khan...
> > - zerksis.
> 
  I also recall  that either Lord or Lady M.
 could utter some Pushtu (one of the Pathan tongues) and this in addition
  to the Islamic color may've mollified the charged crowd. I don't
 remember if I read this in "Freedom at Midnight" or elsewhere.

--Sridhar
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S. Sridhar sridhar%spy@tektronix.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa