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==== Firozpur District ==== {{See also|Firozpur district#Religion}} Indian historians now accept that Mountbatten probably did influence the Firozpur award in India's favour.<ref name="Jones2003">{{cite book|author=Owen Bennett Jones|title=Pakistan: Eye of the Storm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8iYEgPYG_EC&pg=PA60|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10147-8|pages=60β|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730140644/https://books.google.com/books?id=t8iYEgPYG_EC&pg=PA60|archive-date=30 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The headworks of River Beas, which later joins River Sutlej flowing into Pakistan, were located in Firozpur. Congress leader Nehru and Viceroy Mountbatten had lobbied Radcliffe that headworks should not go to Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Khan |first=Ansar Hussain |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRpFol4AnO0C&pg=PA332 |title=The Rediscovery of India: A New Subcontinent |publisher=Orient Longman |year=1999 |isbn=9788125015956 |page=332 |chapter=The Truth of the Partition of the Punjab in August 1947: Statement by Christopher Beaumont |access-date=8 April 2022}}</ref>
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