"We were fairly thin on the ground by August 1947. On Independence Day I was in Lahore making my way back to England. I remember people shaking my hand saying, 'Thank you. Thank you for making us independent.' "The station was knee-deep in bodies. It was a terrible time. Trains coming from one direction full of dead Sikhs and Hindus - and trains coming from the other full of dead Muslims. "We all - sort of people like myself, British officers - felt Partition went through too fast. The whole thing was not thought through. "I think the British government of the day was anxious to get it done quickly. It was a great mistake."Based on Deny's account, which situation developed during the partition of India

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