Joe Shearer
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Given the importance of the Kashmir issue between Pakistan and India, I wanted to start this discussion with the following:
The Constitution of the State of Jammu and Kashmir states in Part II Section 4 that the territory of the State "shall comprise all the territories which on the fifteenth day of August, 1947, were under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Ruler of the State."
Just what are these areas and where have they been defined?
@Joe Shearer and other persons interested in history may please enlighten me. Thanks.
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Nowhere that I could find. But there are broad interpretations possible.
- Directly ruled provinces and Governors for those provinces;
- The area leased to the British;
- The states which acknowledged the suzerainty of the Maharaja of J&K.
Chitral.
- #2 was the Gilgit Agency.
- #1 was all the rest, including, without any foundation, Aksai Chin.