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The Last Days of the Raj
Top 8 Billed Cast
James Wilby
Lord Mountbatten
Saskia Reeves
Lady Mountbatten
Julian Wadham
Evan Jenkins
Roshan Seth
Jawarharlal Nehru
Allan Corduner
Lord Ismay
Surendra Rajan
Muhatma Gandhi
Rajat Kapoor
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
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Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
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2007-03-12
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