Partition of India in the United Provinces (where Muslims were attacked by Hindus), and on to Rawalpindi in March 1947 in which Hindus were attacked or driven out by Muslims. The British Prime Minister Attlee appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India's last viceroy, who was given the task to oversee British India's independence by June 1948, with the instruction to "avoid" partition and "preserve" a United India, but with adaptational authority to ensure a British withdrawal with minimal setbacks. Mountbatten hoped to revive the Cabinet Mission scheme for a federal arrangement for India. But despite his initial keenness for preserving the center the
Artistic depictions of the partition of India problems they face because of Partition. Directed by Ritwik Ghatak "Komal Gandhar" (1961), the protagonists suffer from the same anguish: the separation from their home, on the other side of the border. It was first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism, "Dharmputra" (1961) directed by Yash Chopra, two years after he made his debut with "Dhool Ka Phool" (1959), steeped in Nehruvian secularism, wherein a Muslim brings up an `illegitimate' Hindu child and featured classic song, "Tu Hindu banega na Musalman banega, insaan ki aulaad hai, insaan banega", the theme was reverse in this film