What has the treaty of Amritsar, 1846, got to do with my point, which was about events in 1947-48?
Bwahahaha. The Maharajah of Kashmir did not even have an army - he only had lightly armed police forces. That is why Pakhtun lashkars and Pakistani armymen in mufti quickly overran them, and he was forced to ask India's help.
Can you substantiate your assertion that the Maharajah had an "army" that was superior to the British trained Pak army? Or will you, like
@Color_Less_Sky, ask me to disprove your assertion, instead of proving it yourself?
Maybe so; there have been heroic acts from small units or individual commanders in most wars, from Pakistanis or Indians. Who is the person?
Good question, one which many Indians have been angry about since then. Nehru, against the advice of the military and his own cabinet colleagues, decided to make a ceasefire and to take the case to the UN. The military was aghast because they had the momentum on their side, and the tide of war was well and truly in their favor.
I am critical of India's actions from that point on. India should either have continued the war and captured the rest of Kashmir, or alternatively, having taken it to the UN for mediation, should have worked with Pakistan for a quick referendum. Neither India nor Pakistan took the steps necessary for a referendum, after mutually agreeing to a UN mediation.
That was a tardy sequence of actions, I'll admit. The mistake of taking it to the UN was Nehru's; not conducting the UN mandated referendum was India's and Pakistan's mistake.