According to Mountbatten, Gandhi had admitted to Viceroy Wavell, after his release from prison in about 1944 that he got time to read the act carefully only when he was in prison. ‘Had he had time to study it earlier…he would have recommended acceptance.’ Mountbatten has called the GOI Act, 1935 ‘perhaps the greatest single legislative achievement of the British in India.’ (Carter 2003; p.287)
