He went ahead with his partition plan and in August 1947 the two independent dominions of India and Pakistan surfaced on the map of the world, at the cost of millions of Government that partition of India was inevitable. Within five months of his arrival in Delhi on March 22, 1947, Mountbatten managed to convince the British Attlee's cabinet was as anxious to get rid of the albatross (of India) hanging around its neck as was its predecessor, and for this purpose Viceroy Wavell was replaced by Rear Admiral Mountbatten, a cousin of King George VI, who was given 18 months to resolve the Indian imbroglio, after which India would be handed over to the Indian political leaders. In July 1945 Churchill lost the elections and Clement Attlee became the new prime minister. He did not agree to ship grain to India and kept 'all available shipping ready for the transport of troops to the beaches of France,' during the Normandy invasion. In September 1942 Prime Minister Winston Churchill was least interested in the lack of governance and the state of the Indian masses during the famine of Bengal, in which nearly two million starved to death.
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