Daily Diary (DD) - Day 110 of 2020

2243hrs:

We are moving along quite well...

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The following Facebook post laid the foreground for the beginning of a new weekly Facebook live programme on JKTV:



Here's the text of the FB post for those of you who cannot read it above:

Urdu:
Mumlikat/Riyasat Jammu wa Kashmir ka androona bayaaniya ka pehla nuqta!

1947 me aur us se qabl Maharaja Hari Singh aur us ki riaaya ya awaam ke aapas ka raabta kis ne thora?

English:
The first salvo of an internal narrative of the country/state of Jammu & Kashmir!


In 1947 and in the years preceding it, who broke the communication/procedure relationship between Maharaja Hari Singh and his subjects (or the public)?

End of FB post....

Here's a direct link to today's programme as it appears that we cannot embed the video here directly from JKTV's Facebook page at the moment. Many of our logged embeds in previous diaries are also suffering from this dilemma.

We will continue broadcasting every Sunday evening at 2100hrs (9pm AJK time).

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(Update 0509hrs on 02/05/20):

We've circumvented the embedding issue from JKTV directly with the aid of Twitter:

This tweet intends 2 achieve a multitude of objectives, not 2 dissimilar 2 how we've conducted most elements of our public activity since 2005 n or nr #AJK Here's a link 2 the inaugural session of our weekly Urdu prog. n #JKTV conducted n Sun 19/04/20: https://t.co/p2xcJsgJzM

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) May 2, 2020

In each programme we will also be providing references for further reading and clarification over what we discuss over the course of our weekly programme:

Here are today's references:


1) At 05 minutes and 38 seconds:

Jinnah's interpretation of the Indian Independence Act 1947 (Which was the constitutional basis of how India and Pakistan came into existence)

17 June Statement:

Jinnah's statement of 17 June 1947 highlighted that "constitutionally and legally the Indian States will be independent sovereign States on the termination of paramountcy and they will be free to decide for themselves to adopt any course they like; it is open to them to join the Hindustan Constituent Assembly, or the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, or decide to remain independent."

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2) At 12 minutes and 23 seconds:

In July 1946, Hari Singh stated that people would "work out our own destiny without dictation from any quarter which is not an integral part of the State," writes Ramachandra Guha in his book 'India After Gandhi'. Singh famously wanted J & K to be the 'Switzerland of the East'; effectively a neutral territory between India and Pakistan.

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3) At 13 minutes and 26 seconds:

This is Sitaram Yechury General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The pre 1947 partition letter from Maharaja Hari Singh to Mountbatten which Yechury refers to would put the ball firmly in the UK's court, today more than ever.

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4) At 14 minutes and 08 seconds:

Freedom of Information Act and the UK Government

Details of communication between the British State and the Dogra State of J & K (1945,1946, 1947)

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5) At 15 minutes and 56 seconds:

Saadat Hasan Manto chronicled the chaos that prevailed, during and after the Partition of India in 1947. Manto strongly opposed the partition of India, which he saw as an "overwhelming tragedy" and "maddeningly senseless".

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