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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 Bamzai's '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 ...