Complex sentence: After Partition, Lord Mountbatten remained briefly as the first of the two Governors General of India--in 1950 the link with the monarchy was severed and India's governor general was replaced with a non-executive president.
Split into simpler sentences: After Partition, Lord Mountbatten remained briefly as the first of the two Governors-General of India. In 1950 the link with the monarchy was severed and India's governor general was replaced with a non-executive president.