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India holds that the Instrument of Accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India, signed by Maharaja Hari Singh (erstwhile ruler of the State) on 25 October 1947 [371] [372] and executed on 27 October 1947 [372] between the ruler of Kashmir and the Governor General of India was a legal act and completely valid in terms of ...
Jammu [b] and Kashmir [c] (abbreviated J&K) is a region administered by India as a union territory [1] and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959. [3]
The state was able to define the permanent residents of the state who alone had the privilege to vote in state elections, the right to seek government jobs and the ability to own land or property in the state. [96] Jammu and Kashmir was the only Indian state to have its own official state flag, along with India's national flag, [97] in addition ...
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, [25] was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars between the two newly independent nations .
Anand, Adarsh Sein (2001). "Accession of Jammu and Kashmir State – Historical and Legal Perspective". Journal of the Indian Law Institute. 43 (4): 455– 468. ISSN 0019-5731. JSTOR 43953394. McCarthy, Michael R. (2002). A subject of dispute: a legal analysis of the claims of India and Pakistan to Kashmir (Masters thesis). Durham University.
The Kashmiri Pandits, the only Hindus of the Kashmir valley, who had stably constituted approximately 4 to 5% of the population of the valley during Dogra rule (1846–1947), and 20% of whom had left the Kashmir valley to other parts of India in the 1950s, [68] underwent a complete exodus in the 1990s due to the Kashmir insurgency. According to ...
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir, [13] [30] a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.
India has control of about half the area of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan controls a third of the region, governing it as Gilgit–Baltistan and Azad Kashmir. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, "Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and ...