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Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India on 26 October 1947, with Maharaja Hari Singh signing the Instrument of Accession as Afridi raiders reached Srinagar’s gates after burning the Mahura power station and forcing him to flee to Jammu in the night. In the power vacuum that ensued, Sheikh Abdullah, founding National Conference leader, emerged as the people’s representative to assume administration. After his dismissal in 1953, Delhi installed Baks
After an uneasy truce brokered by Delhi with the amalgamation of the splinter Democratic National Conference (DNC), Prime Minister Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad again escalated tensions after the 1962 elections, cutting erstwhile DNC members down to size in the Cabinet and engaging with anti-India formations like Plebiscite Front, while Delhi tried to maintain the status quo. In this special report, the author uses private, classified correspondence and
