In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
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Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten
Gillian Anderson as Edwina Mountbatten
Michael Gambon as General Hastings Ismay
Manish Dayal as Jeet
Huma Qureshi as Aalia
David Hayman as Ewart
Simon Callow as Cyril Radcliffe
Om Puri as Ali Rahim Noor
Lily Travers as Lady Pamela Hicks
Simon Williams as Archie Wavell
Arunoday Singh as Asif
Sarah-Jane Dias as Sameera
Lucy Fleming as Lady Wavell
Marcus Jean Pirae as Alan Campbell Johnson
Samrat Chakrabarti as Mohsin
Terence Harvey as Sir Fred Burrows
Roberta Taylor as Miss Reading
Neeraj Kabi as Mahatma Gandhi
Denzil Smith as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Darshan Jariwala as Guptaji
Raj Zutshi as
Jaz Deol as Duleep
Robin Soans as Governor Jenkins
Tanveer Ghani as Jawaharlal Nehru
Trishaan as Farrukh
Hriiday Malhotra as Sanjit
Noah Zeiler as Henry Grady
Nicholas Blane as Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe
Mahatma Gandhi as Self (archive footage)
Jawaharlal Nehru as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwina Mountbatten as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Louis Mountbatten as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)