History Of India Pakisthan War
Friends, today we are going to tell you about such a non-popular place without which Kashmir would neither have become a part of India nor would we have been able to say that Kashmir is the crown of our India. So friends, let us know about this fight for Kashmir between India and Pakistan in today’s video. India became independent on 15 August 1947, but partition with Pakistan had also thrown some princely states into disarray.
At the time of independence, there were around 560 princely states in the country which had independent kings. But Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Home Minister of India, had very cleverly merged all the princely states into India, except Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir. Junagadh and Hyderabad were two such princely states in the middle of India which were not geographically suitable to be connected anywhere else.
But still Junagadh’s Sardar Mahavat Khan wanted to merge with Pakistan, but the majority of the population there was Hindu. Was. Due to which people started protesting and a public rally was organized. Which proved that the people of the princely state wanted to merge with India. So in such a situation, Junagadh merged with India and Mahabat Khan settled in Pakistan. Something similar happened in Hyderabad also because the ruler there was also a Muslim.
But most of the population was Hindu. So, due to military action there, Hyderabad had to merge with India. Now the real problem was Kashmir which was connected to both India and Pakistan. This was the reason that after the declaration of independence, on July 3, 1947, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had written a letter to King Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir asking him to make Kashmir a part of the Indian Union, in which only Kashmir would be benefited.
Friends, there was a situation with Kashmir that the majority of the population there was Muslim and the ruler was Hindu, who at that time was Raja Hari Singh. The popular Kashmiri leader of that time, Sheikh Abdullah, raised his voice for merging Kashmir with India. Due to which Raja Hari Singh arrested him and put him in jail. There was only one reason behind all this and that was that King Hari Singh was not ready to join any country, India or Pakistan, because if he had gone with Pakistan, he would have felt very uncomfortable as a Hindu ruler there.
This would have been a defeat for his descendants as well. Also, this is not the right decision for the minority sections. Kashmiri Pandits of Jammu and Kashmir, Buddhists of Ladakh etc. were such minority classes, whose minds were filled with fear. This problem was not only with the minorities but also with the majority, because the majority Muslims of the valley were ethnically and linguistically different from the Pakistani Muslims.
On the other hand, due to India’s democratic system, they did not want to join India either. In this way they made a stand alone agreement, under which they would not join either India or Pakistan, but would remain independent. Just as Switzerland is an independent principality from Europe. Pakistan signed this agreement but India did not agree to it. Also, the king’s representative was called to Delhi for discussion, but none of the king’s representatives went to Delhi. Jinnah also sent a secretary from Pakistan to the king to persuade him for merger, but he did not agree.
After all this, finally on 24 August 1947, Pakistan wrote a threatening letter to the King of Kashmir that if Kashmir fails to join Pakistan, then a serious crisis awaits them in the future. This alerted the Maharaja and his inclination towards India also started increasing. Sheikh Abdullah was also released. Sheikh Abdullah’s closeness to Nehru also started increasing. Due to all this, Pakistan started feeling that Kashmir would soon merge with India.
Then on the morning of 24 October 1947, Pakistan infiltrated thousands of Qawwalis into Kashmir. It gathered Qawwalis from the North West Front and about two thousand fighters equipped with modern weapons reached Muzaffarabad. He named it Operation Gulmarg. By 26 October, Uri and Baramulla were under their control. The Indian Army had not yet reached here, due to which these tribals created a lot of terror in Baramulla.
According to a report, around 11 thousand murders took place there at that time. On the other hand, some people in Kashmir also started opposing the merger with India. Due to which Nehru ji said that if he does not get the support of the public, he will not be able to do anything. Then Sheikh Abdullah assured him that the people of Kashmir really want to merge with India. Due to which a helicopter of some Indian soldiers also reaches Kashmir from here.
But waits for takeoff and the captain arrives as soon as the order for unoccupied space comes. Diwan Ranjit Roy takes off the plane and for the first time a contingent of 15 Indian soldiers. Steps on Kashmir. On the other hand, Hari Singh left the palace. Had gone to the palace in Jammu on 25 October 1947 itself. The contingent of Indian soldiers was told that they had to fight some separatists in Kashmir.
But as we have told earlier, there were not just a few people but a huge army standing there to fight, which had come to fight the war with the support of Pakistan. If we talk about Kashmiri Force, Kashmir State Force had only four brigadiers to handle and their connection with India was only through Rawalpindi. Due to all these carelessness, it was too late and Kashmiri fighters had closed all the roads connecting India to Kashmir.
Even the railways running between Kashmir and Pakistan were captured. Due to the closure of this train, there was going to be a problem of food items in Kashmir soon and this is what the fighters wanted so that the Kashmiri people would get angry due to the problem of hunger and stand against India. Although this happened to some extent. After all this, the Pakistani Army felt that they were in a very strong position and had established their control everywhere. So now they have started planning to capture parts of Kashmir.
For which he started the movement and the date is 21 October 1947 when he captured the bridge of Jhelum river with the help of Kashmir State Force. They not only captured the bridge here but also did heavy looting in the surrounding areas. They even set fire to the entire area due to which they started spreading terror like Pakistan in Kashmir. Now only 50 kilometers distance was left for these fighters from Srinagar.
After deciding this they were about to reach Baramulla. But in the meantime, something happened that the Indian Army got some time, due to which they increased their army and also controlled the Pakistani army to a great extent. What happened was that while going through Baramulla, he asked a person named Maqbool Sherwani for the way to go further. But Sherwani had understood that he was a Pakistani Army man and he was in support of India. Therefore, he misdirected the Pakistani army for almost two days.
While roaming around for these two days, the soldiers started to understand that Sherwani was doing something wrong and due to which they caught hold of Sherwani and then somehow they reached Baramulla. After reaching there, they tied Sherwani to a pillar and fired 14 bullets on her body. In this way, Sherwani ji’s sacrifice had given two days’ time to the Indian Army and this time was enough for the army. After which the first battle starts in which the condition of Pakistani army was quite good.
Seeing all this, the Indian Army understood the seriousness of the situation and sent a machine gun company with the army. And then divided the army into two parts. One group stayed in Srinagar for security there and the other part moved towards Baramulla. Then the time came for 7th November. A heavy encounter took place that day and a total of 427 of their tribesmen were killed by Indian soldiers. After which Pakistanis were driven away from the main parts of Kashmir by hoisting the flag on Baramulla.
Amidst all this, the weather was changing very rapidly and due to the increase in cold in November, there was a pause in the war. But by then a large number of Indian soldiers had captured many parts of Kashmir. But Pakistan was still in control of high altitude places like Leh, Kargil, Skardu. To reach there, Indian soldiers had to climb the difficult climb of Zojila Pass. In such a situation, the problem was that before the soldiers reached or as soon as they reached, the Pakistani army would open fire on them, due to which it was becoming difficult to reach.
Therefore, the Indian Army now adopted a method which the Pakistani Army had not even expected. He started the climb by reassembling all the parts of his tank and taking it with him and then as soon as he reached the height, he again assembled all the parts of the tanks and attacked the Pakistani Army. The army was not prepared for the tank attack at that time because they believed that it was not possible to bring such heavy and large weapons at such a height.
After all this, the Indian Army also captured the high place and hoisted the Indian flag there too. After this a ceasefire was announced and Joe stopped where he was. Then on January 4, 1949, the United States decided that Pakistan should leave Kashmir and this happened. So in this way the Indian Army saved Kashmir and allowed it to remain a part of India. If you are a true patriot then definitely write Jai Hind in the comment.
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