Throw light on conditions of merger of Jammu-Kashmir in India.
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Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)Jammu and Kashmir was, from 1846 until 1952, a princely state of the British Empire in India and ruled by a Jamwal Rajput Dogra Dynasty. ... On 26 October 1947, the Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession joining the Dominion of India in return for military aid.
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“I, Shriman Maharadiraj Hari Singh, ruler of Jammu And Kashmir State in the exercise of my sovereignty in and over my said state, do hereby execute this Instrument of Accession”
This is the same instrument of accession that ruler of every princely state had signed on. The ruler of Jammu & Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh too had signed on the same instrument of accession.
While accepting this instrument of accession, the then Governor General Lord Mountbatten wrote “…. I do hereby accept this Instrument of accession. Dated this twenty seventh day of October, Nineteen Hundred and forty seven.” This is the same words which Mountbatten wrote while accepting all the other Instruments of Accessions of all other princely states too. If both the Instrument of Accession and its acceptance were the same for all the princely states, then where is the question of dispute at all? This also means that the so-called dispute that we experience today is not based on facts and is a misconception that has been wrought intentionally not only by the separatist elements, the state and central governments have a role in it too.
The truth is that the citizens of the state had to suffer immensely due to the aggression of Pakistani forces due to which they saw Pakistan as an aggressor and never even thought of merging with it. Even Sheikh Abdullah, who was very close to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and due to whose adamant wish to become the Prime Minister of the State the accession with India was delayed, for his own reasons opposed Jinnah’s two-nation theory and was completely against the merger of the state with Pakistan.