Many thanks, Danny, for your interesting and erudite response.
Having done some homework, I realise that Curzon's ultimately unsuccessful foray into partition related solely to Bengal rather than to overall Indian independence so, whilst I may have been right in principle to refer to a "form of partition", I was clearly wide of the mark on a wider scale. I lives and I learns, and I am very taken with your quotations!
So, no more politics for me - I'll stick with "Though no love was lost between the RAF and IAF elements, when it came to a question of keeping the aircraft flying, both elements put in their best".......... "
Jack