Febuary 1947: British PM Clement Attlee decided to replace Wavell as Viceroy with Lord Louis Mountbatten - arrived to take over in March
Wavell had been the first Viceroy to accept that India would become independent, and that his job was to prepare for this.
Mountbatten was sent over specifically to get the British out of India as quickly and painlessly as possible: he therefore new that he would be in power for the shortest about of time (only 5 months) and that he was the last Viceroy of India
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