Q. India became independent during the viceroyalty of ___:
Answer: Lord Mountbatten
Notes: Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India who presided over the independence of both India and Pakistan. He was the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion of India (1947–48), from which the modern Republic of India was to emerge in 1950.

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