DISCONTINUED BRAND: Drisdol (Vitamin D2) PRESCRIPTION: Vitamin D2 and D3 50000 IU are available with a prescription. Vitamin D2 and D3 400 â 5000 IU are available over-the-counter (OTC). USES: Vitamin D is used for treating hypoparathyroidism, vitamin D resistant rickets, and low vitamin D levels.
Lord Mountbatten Biography. Lord Mountbatten was the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire and the first Governor-General of independent India. Find more on the life and childhood of Lord Mountbatten in this brief biography. A British statesman and naval officer, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten was a man of honor.
A new viceroy sent by the Attlee government arrived in India on March 22, 1947. This was Lord Mountbatten, a member of Britain's royal family. Mountbatten disliked the idea of splitting India into two separate countries, as did Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.ehru and Gandhi. With India on its way to independence from British rule and on its way to establishing a constitution, many Muslims were afraid that Hindus would use their majority status to impose upon them laws that would deny them the freedom to pursue their way of life untainted by Hindu ways.