peagle
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This is where most Pakistanis are wrong. It was the Muslim league leadership that said that it was the princely state ruler's right to choose where he wants to go. And then the leadership totally ignored repeated pleas from muslim conference to change this decision. Even during the war the leadership refused to let go hyderabad deccan in place of kashmir. The result is this.
This Hyderabad for Kashmir lie has been repeated for so long people have started to believe it as the truth.
Things were not so simple, lets not judge history with the knowledge and false information that has been fed to us through history. Congress party was institutionally powerful with dozens of top tier leadership. We had Just Jinnah, then Liaquat Sahib and everyone else was a regional leader, it makes a difference because it limits the resources you have to negotiate.
Pakistan gained independence only after the British realised there is no other way, and only gave little over couple of months notice, take it or lump it. Jinnah knew he was sick, his options were limited. Plus, Nehru was a Kashmiri pundit, he was going to do all he could to keep hold of Kashmir. They still only control 50% of Jammu and Kashmir, 30% is under Pakistani control and almost 20% under Chinese control. For India, that is lose.
Nehru was in a relationship with Mountbatten's wife Edwina, that's a lot of leverage, and he and Mountbatten were working against Jinnah sahib. Mountbatten allowed Nehru to see the boundary award before it was announced, that's why Gurdaspur ended up with India, even though it had a Muslim majority, but it was also the only land route from India into Kashmir.
Please, lets view history with some understanding and recognise the lies we have been fed, those lies do not hold up to fair evaluation.
Tharparkar a hindu majority area ended up with Pakistan as well, so?
Right, but in your clarification, you have created a confusion, perhaps you are unaware because so many lie shave been spread.
Please allow me to explain.
India was never divided or partitioned or anything of the kind. British left by giving independence to two new states of India and Pakistan.
The only part of British India, not India, but the colony of British India, that was divided was the Punjab and Bengal, and few districts near Assam through a referendum.
So, in the act of dividing Punjab (not India) Gurdaspur was given to India whereas it should have gone to Pakistan.
Sindh was a separate matter, and the issue never arose because India was not divided, only the two provinces of Punjab and Bengal were.