Dark Secrets: Politics, Intrigue and Proxy Wars in Kashmir by Iqbal Chand Malhotra

Author:Iqbal Chand Malhotra [Malhotra, Iqbal Chand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Art, History, General
ISBN: 9789354355455
Google: Iu1WEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-01-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Deception and Intrigue as the Transfer of Power Takes Place

The plot thickens

On 8 August 1947, a provisional map was released by the Punjab Boundary Commission that showed three eastern tehsils of Gurdaspur district falling under India even though they had slim Muslim majorities. On 12 August, when the final report of the boundary commission was released, India was not only rewarded with the three eastern tehsils of Gurdaspur but also one tehsil from Ferozepur and another from Zira on grounds of accessibility to good irrigation.

Mountbatten was suspected to have intervened in this award. The author Alastair Lamb alludes to the fact that Mountbatten was suspected to have called up Punjab Governor Sir Ewan Jenkins on 10 August. Mountbatten apparently ordered Jenkins to nudge Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who headed the Radcliffe Boundary Commission for Punjab, to award the five aforementioned tehsils to India. Why did Mountbatten provide India with a road link to Kashmir, which in turn ostensibly gave Hari Singh a chance to keep his options for merger open beyond 15 August?

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