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Accession of Kashmir to India would not have been possible without the support of Muslims, the Congress Party said in the Lok Sabha Thursday December 07, 2023.

When Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury made these remarks, BJD’s Bhartruhari Mahtab said that history should not be distorted. “I would like to say that let the book, that Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary referred to, be placed on the table of the House,” Mahtab said.

An extract from the prologue to a new book on Patel, Menon and the integration of princely India

Mani Shankar Aiyar, while reviewing Sandeep Bamzais Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India in the Open Magazine, wrote, quoting extensively from the book:

Nehru never hid his contempt for India's monarchs. He loathed the "gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves". To belittle his contributions to the freedom movement ...

Mani Shankar Aiyar, while reviewing Sandeep Bamzais Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India in the Open Magazine, wrote, quoting extensively from the book:

Nehru never hid his contempt for Indias monarchs. He loathed the "gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves".

Osmanistan was the hypothetical name that was proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan nationalist who coined the name Pakistan, for an independent state which of course never materialised to be created as a successor to the princely state ...

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Many of the larger Princely States tinkered with the idea of remaining independent in the run-up to Independence. The dramatis personae who thought of this third Dominion or Princestan idea were principally the Nawab of Bhopal, Chancellor of ...