Hugh Bonneville

Lord Mountbatten

Gillian Anderson

Edwina Mountbatten

Michael Gambon

General Hastings Ismay

Manish Dayal

Jeet

Huma Qureshi

Aalia

David Hayman

Ewart

Simon Callow

Cyril Radcliffe

Om Puri

Ali Rahim Noor

Lily Travers

Lady Pamela Hicks

Simon Williams

Archie Wavell

Arunoday Singh

Asif

Sarah-Jane Dias

Sameera

Lucy Fleming

Lady Wavell

Marcus Jean Pirae

Alan Campbell Johnson

Samrat Chakrabarti

Mohsin

Terence Harvey

Sir Fred Burrows

Roberta Taylor

Miss Reading

Neeraj Kabi

Mahatma Gandhi

Denzil Smith

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Darshan Jariwala

Guptaji

Raj Zutshi

Robin Soans

Governor Jenkins

Tanveer Ghani

Jawaharlal Nehru

Nicholas Blane

Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe

Mahatma Gandhi

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Edwina Mountbatten

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Louis Mountbatten

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Winston Churchill

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