Its a good piece of recorded information we got a chacne to read today otherwise we only heard about accession of kashmir or Maharaj agreeing to handover Kashmir to India. This kind of historical facts should be told to the new generation of india who still is ignorant about it.I being 52 yrs old came to know today abt Kashmir. India GOT kashmir with the wish n will of the then Maharaja of Kashmir so it becomes integeral part of India NOW. At those days India had some Kingly estates left which were ruled by the then respective Kings so was Kashmir. We also heard that Hydrabad King, being muslim dominated at that time, wanted to join Pakistan. But keeping in view the geographical location of Hydrabad it was not possible to give away Hydrabad or allow him to join Pakistan, then It was Sardar Patel who made it possible to merge it with India. From there Sardar Patel was nick named as 'Iron Man'
What I feel is that both stories are similar, in one case Hydrabad was forcibly merged with india & on the other hand Kashmir was willingly handed over to India by the then Maharaja.
