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...current U.N. cease-fire line, which now gives India two-thirds of the province, including all of the rich Vale of Kashmir. The new Indian proposal called for India to keep Ladakh, part of which is currently occupied by Red China, most of the predominantly Hindu area of Jammu, and one-half of the Vale, including the province's capital of Srinigar. Pakistan would get the rest of the province, plus rights of free access for all its citizens to the Indian parts of the province...
Thus began a full-scale war in Kashmir. India went to the United Nations for relief. In 1949 the U.N. demarcated a cease-fire line that gave India the richest two-thirds of Kashmir, including most of Ladakh, the Vale, and the predominantly Hindu area of Jammu. But India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had pledged that "the fate of Kashmir must ultimately be decided by its people." Declared Nehru: "We are prepared, when peace, law and order have been established, to have a referendum under some international auspices like...
Living It Up. When uncle died in 1925, Sir Hari took over as Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir. The coronation was splendid (Sir Hari wore diamond earrings and his pony a bejeweled caparison), and the British government, which encouraged maharajahs in those days to shore up its colonial rule, spent $1,000,000 to celebrate. But the ensuing rule proved less glittering. Although Sir Hari had a yearly income of $10 million, a silver-plated airplane, and a Versailles-sized palace up in Kashmir at Srinagar-now one of the Orient's most luxurious hotels-he spent much...
...Unfinished Room. In 1947 Sir Hari haggled with the newly independent states of India and Pakistan to see which would give him the best deal for relinquishing Kashmir. Some 77% of Kashmir-Jammu's inhabitants are Moslem (and therefore inclined toward Pakistan), but Sir Hari was a Hindu...
...decisive moment came when Pathan warriors from Pakistan invaded the vale of Kashmir and cut the electric supply to Srinagar palace. Sir Hari promptly fled to Jammu, taking with him an 85-vehicle convoy loaded with his possessions, including polo ponies, and necklaces from the temple gods. He also took along most of his own army, while unabashedly appealing to Nehru to come to the aid of the Kashmiri people. In return he offered to sign an instrument of accession by which Jammu and Kashmir became part of India. Nehru, who nourishes a sentimental attachment for Kashmir because his forbears...