text: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal , Bihar , and the Punjab , India 's last viceroy , Lord Mountbatten , kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible .
  
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  The increasing turmoil gave room to bloodshed in Bengal , Bihar , and the Punjab which resulted in Lord Mountbatten to uphold a decree making the British departure as swift as it can be .