Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from SikhArchive and welcome to the 63rd episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, researchers, and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.   

In this episode, we are joined by Andrew Lownie; who is an author and prize-winning historian that also runs his own literary agency, and in 2019 he published the book, “The Mountbattens” which is a biography on the lives of Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina Mountbatten. 

We discussed today to learn about who exactly Lord Mountbatten was, what was his connection to the royal family, and his role in the British Empire and the partition of Punjab.  We also talk a little on the legal battle to declassify the files related to his diary that remain out of the public domain which may reveal findings that could impact how we understand international relations between India and Great Britain.