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Lord Mountbatten arrives in India to take the post of last Viceroy. He and his wife Edwina take up residence in the Viceroy's House, with its hundreds of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim Indian servants. Meanwhile new servant Jeet Kumar arrives to begin his new work as one of Mountbatten's dressers, only to encounter a long lost love from a difficult period in his past. With the country shrouded in civil unrest, Mountbatten is determined to oversee a peaceful transition of power but as India's leaders squabble amongst themselves it begins to look as though partition might be the only answer.