GENESIS OF KASHMIR PROBLEM AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Right before the independence of India and Pakistan, princely states were given an option to merge either of the two dominions. One among the states, Kashmir failed to make the decision till raiders entered the area and Maharaja desperate for help approached India for that, readily India accepted to extend its help to Maharaja against the raiders but on a condition to sign the instrument of accession with India. Finding no other way Maharaja signed it and Indian forces entered the Kashmir. The charge of signing the instrument of accession under duress and on the condition that accession to be settled by reference to the people after the restoration of law and order is the edifice to the burning issue besides the failure of UN and Nehru?s repeated promises of plebiscite.