Ep. 134: Kashmir and Article 370
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Conflict of Principles in Kashmir
When the tribal invasion first began the Maharaja of Jhmon Kashmir Harising very quickly proposed to India that you know the state should exceed to India. Dvarana Nehru actually says that the question of accession is actually material in this context we are all talking in legalities. Ergo you could not really expect a impartial plebiscite to happen and this issue would simply be decided that oh these are Muslims they should go to Pakistan right so it is on that principle that things would be legitimized. The problem was twofold as I said one was that once the Pakistanis came to control a certain part of that territory then the question became whether we should have a pleb
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