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Catalogue Reference:(BL) Photo 429/(18)

The last Viceroy (Governor) of India under British colonial rule, Lord Mountbatten, is photographed in 1947 flanked by Mohammad Ali Jinnah (right), who became the first president of the new nation of Pakistan, and Jawaharlad Nehru (left), the first prime minister of an independent India.

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