Memoirs of a British civil servant never published until now show how much the partition of India was decided by just two men, the BBC's Alastair Lawson reports.
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The central theme ever present in Beaumont's historic paperwork is that Mountbatten not only bent the rules when it came to partition - he also bent the border in India's favour.
The documents repeatedly allege that Mountbatten put pressure on Radcliffe to alter the boundary in India's favour.
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On Kashmir, Beaumont argues that it would have been "far more sensible" to have made the flash-point territory a separate country.
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