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According to Encyclopædia Britannica, "Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab (in Pakistan) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a ...
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 .
The film's director Vivek Agnihotri claims the film to be a depiction of the "truth of Kashmir", [98] [81] when "terrorism seep[ed] in and humanity [was] absent". [99] Its key message — in line with Hindu Right views on the issue — is that what is known as the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits was actually a "genocide" which was kept out of ...
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [1] [2] The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and ...
Tribesmen again poured into Kashmir. [116] 31 October 1947 (): Sheikh Abdullah was appointed as the head of the Emergency Administration in Kashmir. [117] 31 October 1947 (): Major William Brown, the commander of the Gilgit Scouts, led a coup against the governor of Gilgit and imprisoned him. A provisional government was declared by the rebels.
The Sack of Baramulla was an event that took place during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. [citation needed] In October 1947, tribal militias attacked the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Baramulla, a town in the region, witnessed a brutal massacre in the early stages of the war. [citation needed]
In November 1947, the paramilitary force of Gilgit Scouts stationed at Gilgit rebelled against the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, soon after it acceded to the Indian Union. Under the command of a British officer Major William Brown, they executed a coup d'etat, overthrew the governor Ghansara Singh, and imprisoned him.
Following the First Kashmir War (1947–1948), which saw India maintaining its hold over two-thirds of Kashmir, Pakistan sought an opportunity to win the remaining Kashmir areas. In 1960s Pakistan received 700 million dollars of military aid from United States , by signing a defense agreement in 1954, which significantly modernized Pakistan's ...