Partition of India Committee. "Boloji" states that in Punjab there were no riots but there was communal tension, while Gandhi was reportedly isolated by Nehru and Patel and observed "maun vrat" (day of silence). Mountbatten visited Gandhi and said he hoped that he would not oppose the partition, to which Gandhi wrote the reply: "Have I ever opposed you?" Within British India, the border between India and Pakistan (the Radcliffe Line) was determined by a British Government-commissioned report prepared under the chairmanship of a London barrister, Sir Cyril Radcliffe. Pakistan came into being with two non-contiguous enclaves, East Pakistan (today Bangladesh) and West
RMS Viceroy of India first large turbo-electric passenger ship. At about the same time as she was built, P&O also had s performance increased by the addition of BT-H turbo generators and propulsion motors to supplement her quadruple-expansion engines. P&Os first experiences of turbo-electric propulsion led the company to specify the same form of transmission for a pair of liners that it ordered in 1930: (completed in 1931) and (completed in 1932). Each "Strath" was only about bigger than "Viceroy of India" but they produced about 77% more power, which made them about faster than "Viceroy of India". "Viceroy of India" was handed over