The Excess of Accession What has happened may not distract us from what is happening AJAZ UL HAQUE greaterkashmir/news/2013/Oct/27/the-excess-of-accession-5.asp Did Kashmir really accede to India? Was the Instrument of Accession factually signed by those who are believed to have signed it? Would Kashmir be any better or worse or same had there been no Accession? Where was Maharaja then when the whole thing happened? What role did Meherchand Mahajan play? Who reached the airport and who brought the ink with which the document was to be signed. Did Nehru-Edwina affair figure anywhere as Kashmir was getting politically assaulted. Was the instrument signed after the troops had landed in Srinagar or well before? Did India send her army after tribals raided Kashmir or they had already plans up their sleeve to occupy it first, discuss it latter. Every year today, such questions pop up and answers gatecrash. Well, we dont mean to undermine the very subject of Accession without which our political history is incomplete. There sure are some haunting questions answering which honestly can even invalidate Indias claim on Kashmir. A student of history truly gets to know that how the powerful blinds the week to grab his land and assets. That is what makes history important and historians indispensable. That is what makes Accession a case to be studied as long as nations survive. Having said this, one frustrating fact about this chapter of history is the plethora of opinions it invites every time its discussed. No doubt we have writers and analysts who come up with some strong and pathbreaking arguments about this turning point of Kashmir history. But dismaying is the way Kashmirs future too is getting drowned in the Kashmir past. All written or spoken on Kashmir largely hovers around the Accession debate. Past for past, even all our present problems lie buried under Maharaja’s and Sheikh Abdullahs role in placing Kashmir in Indias lap. More than six decades over, the heat of the debate has not died down. The Accession argument wont fade away from the books of history. History is not to be forgotten, but history mustnt impede our way towards future. We cant delink ourselves from our past, but we dont have to get ourselves stuck in the rut too. What has happened may not sedate us to the extent that we forget what is happening or what is to happen. Past only makes us cautious about our future. Once grabbed, lets not be grabbed once again. Once bitten, at least be once shy.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 01:43:14 +0000
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