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On 1 November 1947, Louis Mountbatten left for Pakistan to begin talks between the Governors-General of India and Pakistan over the issue of Kashmir. [6] The talks lasted for three-and-a-half hours, where Mountbatten offered to Jinnah that India would hold a plebiscite in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, provided that Pakistan withdrew its military support for the Azad Kashmir forces and their ...
2 June 1953 (): Pakistani prime minister Muhammad Ali Bogra and Nehru meet in London. [199] 23 June 1953 (): Syama Prasad Mukherjee died in prison. Large protests were held in Delhi and other parts of the country. [200] 25 July 1953 (): Bilateral talks between Pakistan and India in Karachi. [201]
A mezzotint engraving of Fort William, Calcutta, the capital of the Bengal Presidency in British India 1735.. The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
This left the Kashmir Valley and 'perhaps some adjacent country' around Muzaffarabad in uncertain political terrain. [112] Pakistan did not accept this plan because it believed that India's commitment to a plebiscite for the whole state should not be abandoned. [113] [114] [115]
Pakistan brought the case of Junagadh to the United Nations in January 1948. The UN Security Council commanded its commission on Kashmir to examine the conflict over Junagadh. [24] The Kashmir conflict eclipsed the matter of Junagadh at the United Nations Security Council, [48] where Junagadh's case is still unresolved.
The population of Azad Kashmir has strong historical, cultural and linguistic affinities with the neighbouring populations of upper Punjab and Potohar region of Pakistan. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In 2009, a consultation was undertaken into the effects of providing an individual tick-box for "Kashmiri" people in the UK census.
The India Office was a British government department in London established in 1858 to oversee the administration of the Provinces of India, through the British viceroy and other officials. The administered territories comprised most of the modern-day nations of the Indian Subcontinent as well as Yemen and other territories around the Indian Ocean.
India did not, however, capture all of the Jammu and Kashmir. The northern and western portions of Kashmir came under Pakistan's control in 1947 during 1947 Poonch rebellion and 1947 Gilgit rebellion, and came to be called Pakistan-administered Kashmir.