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White Paper Relating to Kashmir

1949

A large number of States acceded to the Dominion of India and copies of the Instrument of Accession as well as of the Standstill Agreement governing the administrative arrangments between the States and the Government of India until the new Costitution should come into force in India are appended. [...] The object of the Standstill Agreement was to provide for the 'contnuance of economic and administrative relations between the State and Pakistan on the same basis as had existed before the creation of the new Dominions. [...] [This is in amplification of paragraph 14 of the Statement issued on May 16th by the Cabinet Delegation and His Excellency the Viceroy.] 1. Prior to lie recent statement of the British Prime Minister in the House of Commons an assurance was given to the Princes that there 1:as no intention on the part of the Crown to initiate any change in their relationship with the Crown or the rights guaranteed [...] I hereby declare that I accede to the Dominion of India with the intent that the Governor-General of India the Dominion Legislature the Federal Court and any other Dominion authority established for the purposes of the Dominion shall by virtue of this my Instrument of Accesion but subject always to the terms thereof and for the purposes only of the Dominion exercise in relation to the Sta [...] Whereas it is to the benefit and advantage of the Dominion of India as well as of the Indian States that existing agreements and administrative arrangements in the matters of common concern should continue for the time being between the Dominion of India or any part thereof and the Indian States— Now therefore it is agreed between the State and the Dominion of India that : — 1. (1) Until new agr
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Foreword
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Introduction
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Part I—Events Leading up to the Accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India
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Part I—Documents
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Part II—The Invasion
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Part II—Documents
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Part III—Complicity of Pakistan in the Invasion of Kashmir
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Part III—Documents
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Part IV—India—s Objectives
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Part IV—Documents
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