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Kashmir and the Partition of India

April 22, 2023 2:03 am68 comments
Kashmir and the Partition of India

In the mid-nineteenth century Kashmir was a collection of culturally different territories brought together under the control of one, Hindu, Maharaja by the British. In 1947 his successor was given the onerous task of deciding whether to join India or Pakistan. Given that two-thirds of the population were Muslims the […]

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