The arguments that Mountbatten put in favour of Partition were that the alternative would be a weak Central government with Muslim-majority provinces that could be up in rebellion and carnage ever so often, as was witnessed. The option to give up some land on both sides of the country and have the rest of India consolidate under a strong constitutional framework and a Central government was infinitely more practical and viable, according to him. This could possibly have been the dose of realism that none could ignore.
