Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray attributed the country's partition to what he called ‘love affair’ between Pandit Nehru and Lady Edwina Mountbatten.
"Lord Mountbatten took advantage of this madness and the country was ditched," Thackeray said in an interview carried by the party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.
Responding to the question that Pakistan posed a danger to India, Thackeray said, "I had a film with me which portrayed this (Nehru-Edwina affair and creation of Pakistan).
This film was banned in England as that country feared loss of face. This is patriotism."
The cassette was given to him by the late Bollywood film maker Manmohan Desai, he added.
The affair between the Jewish Mrs. Edwina Mountbatten (the wife of the last gay viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten) and the Hindu Jawaharlal Nehru (who considered himself the last Englishman in India) was a sexual affair that transformed the history of South Asia. It was because of this illicit affair that Punjab and Bengal were partitioned and Kashmir illegally annexed by Delhi. The following story in the Times of India shed light on the lurid affair. The TOI story is based on an interview with Indologist Catherine Clement, author of the book titled `Edwina and Nehru: A Novel’
A famous picture of the three which has been the subject of many columns and much discussion in India, England and other countries. This real picture of the three shows the clear relationship between Edwina, Nehru and Lord Mountbatten. Nehru is leaning towards Ediwina clearly in Edwina's space while Lord Mountbatten is aloof and peering out into the horizon. Nehru and Edwina are sharing a joke, whle the gay Lord Mountabtten ignores the intimacy between his Jewish wife and native Hindu politician. Large Nehru flirts with lover Edwina Mountbatten while an embarressed Lord Mountbatten looks aloof at the horizon
PARIS: The government’s attempt to censor the film `Indian Summer’ on the Edwina-Nehru affair has drawn flak from French author and philosopher Catherine Clement, who has written a novel on the romance. The author, whose book `Edwina and Nehru: A Novel’ was published in 1993, said Edwina had admitted that her relationship with Nehru was “mostly platonic”, indicating it was not always so.
Speaking to TOI, 74-year-old Clement pointed out, “Edwina in her letters to Lord Mountbatten has written that her relationship with Nehru was mostly platonic. Mostly, but not always.” Clement, an Indophile with a large collection of books and essays about India and Indians, felt the government’s involvement in the cinematic presentation of the romance was unnecessary.
“Why are people bothered? Both (Edwina and Nehru) were adults and it is a relationship that has been documented through letters and eyewitness accounts. I have myself spoken to close aides of Nehru,” she said, adding that they knew intimate details of the leader’s life.
Recalling the time her book was launched, Clement said she had spoken to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and given her a copy. When asked if it had got Sonia’s nod, Clement said, “She (Sonia) said it was alright to be published. I don’t think she was shocked at all.”
The statement comes close on the heels of I&B ministry’s conditional clearance to Universal Pictures promoted film `Indian Summer’. The film – expected to star Cate Blanchett as Edwina - was cleared with a directive that permission to shoot in India would be given only if changes were made to the script, effectively sanitizing the film of all intimate scenes. The film, based on Alex von Tunzelmann’s book, has since been shelved.
Clement, who plans to launch three books including her memoirs at the Jaipur literary festival – being organized as part of the French festival Bon Jour India later this year – said she empathised with Edwina.
“I could understand Edwina’s situation and how she felt,” Clement said. The author, part of the original feminist movement, said there was nothing shocking about their relationship. “It was not a sex scandal. They were not kissing or claiming their love in public. Edwina visited India only once a year,” she added.
Clement has to her credit books on India like `Le Roman du Taj Mahal’ and `Pour l’amour de L’Inde’. Not only has the author visited India almost every year since 1983 but has been spending time in Haryana village Nandan working on a project for ecological conservation. Edwina-Nehru affair not always platonic: French author. Himanshi Dhawan, TNN 9 November 2009, 12:10am IST
Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru has been acclaimed as a great Indian. The economist of August 1997 did a wonderful job of describing his strengths and weaknesses.
His greatest accomplishment is uniting India and giving her a sense of nationhood. The Nehru dynasty did this well. They used ALL MEANS NECESSARY to achieve the goal, but the Indian nation was forged in the furnace and forged in blood.
This article originally written in 1994 is being throughly reformatted and rewritten. This is a Research in process (RIP). reformatted Oct. 22nd 2009.
Nehru’s support of socialism and Nehrus destruction of a free market economy in India will indeed be the subject of continued controversy. The personal character of Mr. Nehru is also under considerable scrutiny. In many ways Mr. Nehru’s personal character was the character of a playboy.
Javaharlal Nehru, Chacha Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India had a fashionable and privileged life. Recently Nehru is well discussed about his affair with the wife of Luis Mountbatten last Viceroy pre-Partition India. Nehru family was one of the richest family of India which was also had taken part in Indian freedom movement. Edwina also from a high class family of London where she was a leading member of London society at the time of her marriage. She was also leading a fashionable life. Her life almost totally dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. Edwina
was criticised by the news papers of her time for her affair with various celebrities of her time. It is also quoted "Lady Mountbatten occasionally travelled with her husband's sister-in-law, Lady Milford Haven, whose bisexual liaisons are perhaps better documented than those attributed to Edwina". She successfully suited newspapers for publishing her personal stories. But it was rumoured and remains widely believed, she an affair with Jawaharlal Nehru that could also be had
a connection on Nehru's subsequent visits to England after her returning.
Love blossomed’ between a ‘lonely’ Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the country, and the last Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten's wife, Edwina, who had had other ‘lovers’ before. She also writes affair between Jawaharlal Nehru, Indias first Prime Minister, and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, blossomed during a 1947 trip to Mashobra, a hill station, as part of a party of family and friends. The attachment between them lasted until her death in 1960. A packet of letters from Nehru was found by her bedside. In her will she left all Nehru's letters - a suitcase full - to her husband.
on between my mother and Pandit ji blossomed into love” by this sentence Pamela gives a sacred states to Nehru and Edwina love affair. The kind of love that the old knights of old, a chivalric love, just as deep an emotional love with two like souls in a way, people who really grow to understand each other, and to be able to listen to each other and to complement each other and find solace in each other. Whatever the stories that could be, the photoes will never lie.
His greatest accomplishment is uniting India and giving her a sense of nationhood. The Nehru dynasty did this well. They used ALL MEANS NECESSARY to achieve the goal, but the Indian nation was forged in the furnace and forged in blood.
Like Mohandas Gandhi, Nehru’s legacy is tarnished by charges of lecherous and lascivious behaviour. Of course the charges against Gandhi totally destroyed his credibility in the Subcontinent. Mohandas Gandhi failed leadership in politics and Gandhis domestic violence and weird sexual perversion. Source: Two Gandhi grandsons. Mohandas- a true story of a man, his people and an empire, on Mahatma Gandhi” by former Parliamentarian and writer Mr. Rajmohan 
