Daily Diary (DD) - Day 66 of 2024

2058hrs:

It is now hoped that our daily diary should not be absent in its daily entry output ever again, as we have structured our affairs in such a manner that it should now be unavoidable.

Slept at c. 0300hrs but couldn't sleep for the following couple of hours. It was 1100hrs before I could get up. Try, try again and again and again.....is the mantra.

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Our daily financial statement:

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At times, let us take you back in history to make better sense of the present and to prepare us better for the future:

This is just another example that the first and foremost enemy of Jammu Kashmir's independence were the British. Of course, this point has been reiterated by various members of parliament over the decades since.

Excerpt quoted as follows: 

In 1947, the British Secretary of State for India, Lord Listowel, clearly warned the rulers of Princely States that "the British Government will not recognise your independence, no one else will, you have no choice but to opt either for India or Pakistan." 

The American State Department communicated to its ambassador in Delhi, Lewis Williams Douglas, to support Britain and not recognize any Princely State as an independent nation and not entertain any dealings with the princely rulers.

....." they are accredited that the US share the desire of HMG [His Majesty’s Government] in the UK that the Indian states should become associated with one or other of the two new dominions and have no intention of according to any Indian state separate recognition."

Secretary Lord Listowel also said that the decision of accession was entirely bestowed on the ruler of the princely state [implying that the people have no role] and the ruler should decide irrespective of the composition of its population or their views.

References:

1) Dr. Sibtain Tahira on page 10 of her book "Kashmir and the United Nations: Successes and the failures"

2) S. M. Burke on page 16 of his book "Pakistan's Foreign Policy: A Historical Analysis"

3) S. M. Haider on page 84 of his book "Kashmir and South Asian Strategy" 

4) General K. K. Nanda on page 39 of his book "Conquering Kashmir: A Pakistani Obsession" 

5) Nicholas Manserg on page 342 of his book "The Transfer of Power 1942-7: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty, Princes, Partition, and Independence"

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