Tom M
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I was wondering, how is the Indian Freedom Struggle under British Occupation/Raj (Pre-independence) any different from the Kashmir Freedom Struggle against Indian Occupation.
Quite similar circumstances. No?
No, there is a big difference. Initially traders, Britishers were always unwelcome guests of the subcontinent. Whereas Indian forces landed in J & K only after the Maharaja Hari Singh requested for help. Whether the people liked him or not is a matter of another discussion, but was Indian forces welcome in Jammu and Kashmir back then ?? Yes they were very much welcome, that was the reason why Indian army along with the Kashmir forces and considerable amount of local support were able to fight back and flush all of the Pakistan backed tribal and regular forces even though Pakistan did had a head-start in attacking Kashmir. Indian army came almost 3 weeks later I guess.
As some of your fellow Pakistani's claim, if Pakistan had the local support then, given almost the same strength of both Indian and Pakistan forces in 1947, Pakistan could have easily won the war. Moreover you won't hear or read about any Indian army atrocities up until 1989, there is a relative 42 years of peace in J & K especially the valley. It was only after the insurgencies (Pakistan backed) and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri pundits started that India slowly build up its paramilitary and army strength and then began crackdown on the separatists.
Therefor there is a big difference in British occupation and Indian Kashmir.
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