WI: Kashmir went to Pakistan?

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So, what if in 1947 Pakistan suceeded to make a deal with India so that large majority of Jammu & Kashmir went to Pakistan and only smaller part ( around Jammu ) where Hinduists were the majority and Leh ( where Buddhists were majority ) went to India?
What effect it would have on later relations between India and Pakistan?
 
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abc123

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So, what if in 1947 Pakistan suceeded to make a deal with India so that large majority of Jammu & Kashmir went to Pakistan and only smaller part ( around Jammu ) where Hinduists were the majority and Leh ( where Buddhists were majority ) went to India?
What effect it would have on later relations between India and Pakistan?

Something along to this map:

http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/2003/09/kashmir-religion/

( so basicly blue and orange area to India and the rest to Pakistan )
 
The scars of the Partition of India would still be there...
But hopefully they aren't going to find another reason to go to war every now and then and their relations will improve over time.
 
The problem is they (Pakistan) would find another excuse. Kashmir was majority Hindi and just prior to the partition proto-Pakistan tried to pack it with Muslims. You move the Border to the eastern edge of Kashmir they are just going to pick another province to dispute. They were looking for a fight not a peaceful separation because a fight gives the ruling elite and the Army an excuse to keep the majority of the economy tied up in protecting the country from India.

Tom.
 
The problem is they (Pakistan) would find another excuse. Kashmir was majority Hindi and just prior to the partition proto-Pakistan tried to pack it with Muslims. You move the Border to the eastern edge of Kashmir they are just going to pick another province to dispute. They were looking for a fight not a peaceful separation because a fight gives the ruling elite and the Army an excuse to keep the majority of the economy tied up in protecting the country from India.

Tom.

I doubt Pakistan is going to bother with the Laccadive and after the Partition I simply don't see any other piece of land they'd dispute.
Anyway, the story here isn't about Pakistan claiming all of Kashmir. It's about both India and Pakistan claiming all of Kashmir and each controlling only part of it. India also has irredentist claims over Pakistani-controlled Kashmir...
 
I doubt Pakistan is going to bother with the Laccadive and after the Partition I simply don't see any other piece of land they'd dispute.
Anyway, the story here isn't about Pakistan claiming all of Kashmir. It's about both India and Pakistan claiming all of Kashmir and each controlling only part of it. India also has irredentist claims over Pakistani-controlled Kashmir...

Okay, but I don't think it would help. The Pakistani leadership was looking for an excuse to build up the military. Dispute of Kashmir give it to them. Even without a Dispute in Kashmir, it it my opinion they would find something else to dispute to give them a reason to keep control of the government and keep the populous looking at the external enemy rather than how the country was being run.

Just my opinion though and I can be convinced otherwise!

Tom.
 

abc123

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Kashmir was majority Hindi and just prior to the partition proto-Pakistan tried to pack it with Muslims.

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abc123

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Interesting map. Thanks. I guess my information was wrong. :eek:

Besides Kashmir, only other issue that I can see between India and Pakistan are marshes near the sea ( west of Gujarat ), but that can be solved peacefully, as OTL.

Other than that, I really don't see any other ( territorial ) disputes between them.
 
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