Kashmir's Accession to India Unravelling the Truth

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Much water has gone down the Vitasta (Jchlum), since the day Kashmir acceded to India in 1947 Generations have changed. Older generation of political leaders have yielded place to younger ones Human memory is short and vital aspects of this problem have FADED INTO OBLIVION Already a wrong perception had been created about the whole question by the agencies which matter in influencing public opinion. Much emphasis had been laid over the signing of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Han singh ignoring the importance of the role played by the people of Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh signed for India under the compulsion of Pakistan's attack, otherwise he was seeking an independent Kashmir People on the other hand had followed a consistent policy which had rejected Mullahism in Kashmir and adopted nationalism as the means of achieving their political and economic objectives. Interestingly this struggle had been launched in Kashmir exactly during the period when Mohammad Ali Jinnah had started demolishing the edifice of Hindu Muslim unity to which he himself had contributed to a large extent. Accession of Kashmir, was therefore the consequence of a conflict between two political ideologies - Jinnah's Two Nation Theory and the nationalist policy adopted by the people of Kashmir under the unchallengeable leadership of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.

Maharaja's signing of the Instrument of Accession which was a necessary constitutional requirement, could have been rendered in fructuous, had Pakistani invaders occupied the city of Srinagar. In fact, their advance-guards had already infiltrated into the city and had taken shelter in those Kashmiri Muslim households which were sympathetic to them. They were heavily armed. They could not come out of these households because of the strong resistance movement organized by the people of Kashmir in response to a call given by Sher-e-Kashmir to rally in defence of their motherland. They could have been lynched, had they come out. Mohammad Ali Jinnah's private Secretary Mr. K. H. Khurshed also was in the city of Srinagar that time and he in his Memoirs of Jinnah confesses that "Tribal invasion was a criminal folly which sealed the fate of Kashmir"

Kashmir had a long history of about 5000 years. It had established its own identity. Its great kings like Lalitaditya had even defeated the forces of Mohammad-bin-Qasim who had attempted to invade Kashmir under the command of Governor of Sindh, Junaid. Even two serious attempts made by Mahmud Ghazni to invade Kashmir were foiled by the rulers of Kashmir King Lalita Ditya in his conquering spree had reached even upto Urrisa. Sultan Shihab- ud-Din, according to the historians of Kashmir, invaded the domains of Feroz Shah Tughlaq. He, also reached upto the foothills of the Hindu Kush. Kashmir was not, therefore, a banana state. Any decision for its future dispensation could not but be its own. Nobody could dictate.

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