Accession Crisis

Jammu & Kashmir in 1947: Partition, Conflict, Standstill Agreement and the Crisis of Accession

By Rohit Thapa

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The 1947 crisis transformed Jammu and Kashmir from a princely state facing an unresolved accession decision into the centre of an armed India–Pakistan conflict. This article explains the Standstill Agreement, internal unrest, October invasion and the…