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Mehr Chand Mahajan, the Maharaja's nominee for his next prime minister, visited Nehru and Patel in Delhi on 19 September, requesting essential supplies which had been blockaded by Pakistan since the beginning of September. He communicated the Maharaja's willingness to accede to India. Nehru, however, demanded that the jailed political leader,
Sheikh Abdullah, be released from prison and involved in the state government. Only then would he allow the state to accede.
[46][47] The Maharaja released Sheikh Abdullah on 29 September.
[37] Before any further reforms were implemented, the Pakistani tribal invasion brought the matters to a head.
Maharaja's troops, heavily outnumbered and outgunned, had no chance of withstanding the attack. The Maharaja made an urgent plea to Delhi for military assistance. Upon the Governor General
Lord Mountbatten's insistence, India required the Maharaja to accede before it could send troops. Accordingly, the Maharaja signed an
instrument of accession on 26 October 1947, which was accepted by the Governor General the next day.
[48][49][50] While the Government of India accepted the accession, it added the proviso that it would be submitted to a "reference to the people" after the state is cleared of the invaders, since "only the people, not the Maharaja, could decide where Kashmiris wanted to live." It was a provisional accession.
[51][52][note 1] National Conference, the largest political party in the State and headed by Sheikh Abdullah, endorsed the accession. In the words of the National Conference leader
Syed Mir Qasim, India had the "legal" as well as "moral" justification to send in the army through the Maharaja's accession and the people's support of it.
[53][note 2]
The Indian troops, which were air lifted in the early hours of 27 October, secured the Srinagar airport. The city of Srinagar was being patrolled by the National Conference volunteers with Hindus and Sikhs moving about freely among Muslims, an "incredible sight" to visiting journalists. The National Conference also worked with the Indian Army to secure the city.
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In the north of the state lay the
Gilgit Agency, which had been leased by British India but returned to the Maharaja shortly before Independence. Gilgit's population did not favour the State's accession to India. Sensing their discontent, Major William Brown, the Maharaja's commander of the
Gilgit Scouts, mutinied on 1 November 1947, overthrowing the Governor Ghansara Singh. The bloodless
coup d'etat was planned by Brown to the last detail under the code name `
Datta Khel.' Gilgit locals formed a provisional government (
Aburi Hakoomat), naming Raja Shah Rais Khan as the president and Mirza Hassan Khan as the commander-in-chief. But, Major Brown had already telegraphed
Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan asking Pakistan to take over. Pakistan's Political Agent, Khan Mohammad Alam Khan, arrived on 16 November and took over the administration of Gilgit.[/QUOT
these r the facts that have been given to indian masses to feed and i am in no mood to go in " your words against mine" but i would rather try to borrow some help from the independence act in which it was asked to every state present at that time in india to choose b/w india and pak and the criteria was simple that if muslim majority state want to go with pak then this would be accepted and vice versa. And if ruler is muslim and majority of people is hindu then it would be also remain on masses to decide which country they want to go with. so if properly analyse then it can become clear what went wrong from start leave alone the chain of events that started to happen after the wrong implementation of act