You are correct, I got it backward. Hindu ruler of J&K at partition, majority Muslim population then. My error. Should have refreshed memory on the Internet as I admonish young folks to do on his site regularly!
Fact remains J&K are not resolvable in my opinion. A waste of time to do more than seek more open borders and collaborative free trade zones there.
Yes, I just corrected myself. My opinion remains, despite my lousy memory, that J&K are not material to positive needs of the world. It is a pointless argument based on raw, backward religious prejudices on both sides, no matter which side had the population majority. Just absolutely pointless and useless to building a better more progress world full to more free democratic nations.
This reddened part is all that I am objecting to. Like I said, the religious prejudice exists only on one side. For India, religion has nothing to do with our claim to Kashmir, and our willingness to defend our territory. It is what all sovereign nation states do.