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  2. Instrument of Accession - Wikipedia

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    The Instrument of Accession was the legal document designed to bring about accession, where a ruler had decided upon it. It was executed by the rulers of each of the princely states, individually, on the one hand, but took effect only if then accepted by the Government of India or the Government of Pakistan. [3]

  3. Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United ...

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    The conventions are in force "with regard to each State which has deposited an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations as from the date of its deposit", i.e. not merely by a state's membership in the UN. Twenty-three states have accepted the conventions only with some reservations.

  4. Political integration of India - Wikipedia

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    The Saurashtra and Kathiawar regions of Gujarat were home to over two hundred princely states, many with non-contiguous territories, as this map of Baroda shows.. The termination of paramountcy meant that all rights flowing from the states' relationship with the British crown would return to them, leaving them free to negotiate relationships with the new states of India and Pakistan "on a ...

  5. Doctrine of lapse - Wikipedia

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    According to the doctrine, any Indian princely state under the suzerainty of the East India Company, the dominant imperial power in the Indian system of subsidiary alliances, would have its princely status abolished, and therefore be annexed into directly ruled British India, if the ruler was either "manifestly incompetent or died without a male heir". [1]

  6. List of Caribbean chordophones - Wikipedia

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    Five-stringed instrument guitar [3] [5] Cuba: 321.322 Guitar, used for the Zapateo dance and other rural music guitar [4] Dominican Republic: 321.322 Guitar, part of some popular merengue groups' instrumentation guitar [6] Haiti: 321.322 Guitar, used in méringue: guitar [1] Jamaica: 321.322 Guitar, used in popular styles like ska, reggae and ...

  7. Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    The European Union announced in 2009 its intention to accede as soon as the treaty would be amended to allow for the accession of non-states [8] [9] [10] and joined accordingly on 12 July 2012. [ 11 ]

  8. Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir

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    A map of the disputed Kashmir region showing the areas under Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese administration. On 5 August 2019, the government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian constitution to Jammu and Kashmir—a region administered by India as a state which consists of the larger part of Kashmir which has been the subject of dispute ...

  9. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    bouzouki [1] String instrument with a pear-shaped body and a long neck, played with plectrum: 321.321: Guatemala: marimba [63] [64] Xylophone-like instrument with gourd resonators, struck with mallets, with a two level keyboard so it can play the full chromatic scale: 111.222-4 Hawaii: ukulele [65]