A thing you forgot... British Army officers remained in both nation's army, Brits in Pak army knew about the invasion of lashkar a month earlier, the Brits didn't inform Hari Singh or Nehru about it.

This felt a bit like a Kings and Generals episode. Even had the fun shattering sound effect for military units being destroyed. I liked it.

Glad to see historians finally looking at the Indian subcontinent which has seen multiple full scale wars but has been largely ignored. Even a smaller conflict like Falklands/Malvinas war has over shadowed the Indo-Pak war of 1971 which could have seen a full scale invasion of India by the US-UK and involvement of USSR and major stories of the war which have been ignored for long time now.

Considering that there was indeed an invasion from Pakistan, I am very inclined to believe that India's version of the story is a lot closer to the truth than Pakistan's.

9:38 The Gilgit Scouts agency was directly under the command of british on behalf of the Maharajah and it was under the command of Major William Alexander Brown they did the Coup d'etat against the maharajah. 10:22 Fun fact: my grandfather was among those 300 First Sikh regiment and took 5 bullets in the battle of Uri Lastly, your pronounciation of the names of almost all the places you mentioned was extremely accurate. Even people from the other states of india cannot pronounce these names with that much of accuracy.

I am actually from Poonch (India). Thank you for this amazing video. never expected such detailed information have watched many videos but no one explained it better.

I’m extremely proud of General Cariappa’s efforts in this war. He had to deal with a an idealistic Prime Minister along with overwhelming odds on the Battlefield. Despite the treachery and opportunism of the enemy, he struck them down with great vigor.

Being an Indian viewer, it's an unexpected delight from the channel. Would like to see videos about the wars of 1965 and 71 between India and Pakistan, and that of 1962 soon.

India is a secular, multi-religious state. Pakistan is an explicitly Muslim state that has not historically or presently been kind to religious minorities. Pakistan even openly discriminates against Muslims it finds not sufficiently Muslim, like the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Any areas of mixed religion are far better off in India. India's Muslim population is significantly larger in numbers and percent than the combined Hindu, Sikh, Christian, and Buddhist minorities are in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's very telling that Sikhs asked to be placed with Hindus in India despite having more in common with the Muslims after having fought with them in WWII. I'm thankful that India was mostly successful in this war. India: Hinduism 80%, Islam 14%, Christianity 2%, Sikhism 2%, Buddhism 1% Pakistan: Islam 97%, Hinduism 2%, Christianity 1%, Sikhism 0%, Buddhism 0% Bangladesh: Islam 90%, Hinduism 9%, Buddhism 1%, Christianity 0%, Sikhism 0%

I wish you included a geographic map view, not a political one. Would've helped contextualize the army engagements more.

The book “Raiders in Kashmir” authored by retired Major General Akbar Khan of Pakistan Army contradicts the myth that tribals raided Kashmir in 1947-48. General Khan not only confessed that Pakistan directly assisted the raiders in Kashmir but also gave the graphic details of the involvement of Pakistan Army. He also narrated that Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah who was Pakistan’s first Governor General was fully aware of Pakistan’s assistance while Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was not only cognizant but was helping in procurement of weapons, finance etc. The retired Major General not only boldly accepts Pakistan’s assistance to Jihadists but also tries to justify the backing. He also gave details that how he himself was present in Kashmir though he was a serving officer of Pakistan army. Akbar Khan also asserts that according to the basic concept of creation of Pakistan, the Muslim majority area had to be merged in Pakistan hence Kashmir which had about 75 percent Muslim population had to be an integral part of Pakistan. At the time of partition Kashmir’s 84,500 square miles area had no effective rail or road linkage with India. The letter K in Pakistan is for Kashmir. The writer also mentioned that Kashmir was essential for Pakistan because of strategic as well as economic reasons. The book also mentions about ‘Operation Gulmarg’ which was planned and launched by Pakistan army. The army Headquarters did the planning and groundwork of Operation Gulmarg since August 1947 i.e. soon after Pakistan was carved out from India. Under the operation support was extended to raiders of Kashmir. The writer recounts the details of the conspiracy hatched in Lahore and Rawalpindi to capture Kashmir through brute force with the complete concurrence of the rulers in Pakistan. Major General (Retd) Akbar Khan was the member of Armed Forces Partition Sub-Committee in 1947 hence he had full idea that the total strength of Maharaja Hari Singh’s army was 9,000 only and out of these 2,000 were Muslims. Hence the effective strength against Pakistan’s invaders who were Muslims was only 7,000 and that too was posted at different places. Hence the most important thing was to choke the routes from where Indian army can enter Kashmir. Pakistan expected that as Kashmir had majority Muslim population it will be merged into Pakistan. They also threatened in case of necessity Pakistan will also use force to capture it. Akbar Khan mentions how Pakistan army together with tribal forces intruded in Kashmir and how they were also involved in loot, rape and mayhem. He also mentions that in September 1947 he was told to chalk out a plan so that Kashmir can be captured forcibly. At that time, he was serving as Director of Weapons and Equipment (DW&E) in GHQ hence he had complete details of the arms and ammunition available in Pakistan and how much can be spared for Kashmiri invaders. However, the problem was firstly most of the weapons were lying in Delhi and secondly officially the weapons had to come through British Commander-in-Chief, and he will never allow to distribute the weapons of Pakistan army to Kashmiri raiders. However, the author diverted 4000 rifles of Punjab police to Kashmiri raiders. Besides these rifles other weapons were taken from illegal weapon market of FATA area. The author also gives details of the condemned weapons were given to raiders of Kashmir. Lieutenant Colonel Masud of the Cavalry also agreed to give condemned ammunition to Zaman Kiani and Khurshid Anwar for distribution to raiders of Kashmir. Air Commodore Janjua gave winter clothing, ammunition and weapons from the stock of Air Force to Kashmir raiders. Kashmiri raiders included Pakistan army serving personnel also. Khwaja Abdul Rahim, Commissioner Rawalpindi collected weapons, ration, money and even volunteers for attacking Kashmir. Prime Minister Liaqat Ali imported Light Machine Guns from Italy. As trained army personnel were required Pakistan army enrolled Ex-Army officers of the I.N.A. (Indian National Army). The book also mentions that though the author captioned his plan as “Armed Revolt inside Kashmir” but makes it clear that “open interference or aggression by Pakistan was obviously undesirable”. Akbar Khan made 12 copies of his plan which included the distribution of the weapons to Kashmir invaders. He was called to Lahore where in a high-level meeting which was presided over by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and attended by Finance Minister Ghulam Mohammad (later Governor General), Mian Iftikharruddin, Zaman Kiani, Khurshid Anwar, Sardar Shaukat Hayat Khan. In the meeting, Akbar Khan’s plan how to conquer Kashmir was accepted. Sardar Shaukat Hayat was made the overall commander while Khurshid Anwar and Zaman Kiani were made commander of the northern and southern sectors respectively. After some time, Akbar Khan was made Military Adviser to Prime Minister so that he can devote full time in implementation of the plan to capture Kashmir. Major General Khan mentioned that Pakistani raiders crossed the border on 22 October 1947 and invaded Muzaffarabad and Domel on 24 October. The troops of Maharaja Hari Singh could not stop Pakistani troops which went ahead on Srinagar road and captured Uri. Baramula was captured on 26 October and the raiders butchered about 11,000 persons out of 14,000. The slaughtered people were mainly non-Muslims which indicates that it was religious cleansing. The Pakistani raiders were moving towards Srinagar but in the meantime Maharaja Hari Singh realised the worsening situation and signed the accession to India. Once he acceded to India, immediately Indian troops reached Kashmir. Prime Minister of Pakistan called an urgent meeting on 27 October to chalk out a plan in view of Kashmir’s accession to India and Indian troops reaching Kashmir. Akbar Khan was also called, and it was decided to attack Jammu and block the road so that Indian forces fail to send troops to Srinagar. The liquidation of Jammu became so important that even Jinnah came in the meeting of military top brass and instructed army to attack Jammu. When General Gracey the Britisher acting C-in-C of Pakistan army was told to attack Jammu he refused and mentioned that he will implement the order only after getting approval from Supreme Commander stationed in New Delhi. Akbar Khan went to Kashmir and found that Pakistani troops are just four miles away from Srinagar and also assessed the requirements of the Pakistan army and found that troops needed armoured cars. Khan went to Rawalpindi and met Colonel Masud who agreed to send the Pak army personnel in plain clothes with armoured cars to fight as tribal. Pak army personnel from Karachi were also ready to come and fight as civilians though reluctantly. However meanwhile Indian army came out of Srinagar and Pakistani forces and tribals retreated to Uri without much resistance and later refused to fight although Akbar Khan tried to persuade them to stay and struggle. The book also deals with several instances where Pakistan failed to take correct decisions because of over enthusiasm and desperation to capture Kashmir through force. The book also makes it clear that although Pakistan army personnel were involved in turmoil, pandemonium, loot and rape in Kashmir along with the tribal but Major General Khan had no repentance for it. It is good if the younger generation reads the book and understands that Pakistan is responsible for most of the problems Kashmir is facing today.

Fascinating information. Always had trouble with understanding what happened after the British left since India and Pakistan are both large and complex nations

Yes, I love this video, the comment section will totally be civilized and not toxic at all

When the transports took off from Delhi with troops, they didn't even know if the landing strip was in friendly hands. The tank deployment probably was the highest tank deployment ever until India deployed armor in Kerang plateau at 16000ft in the late 80s.

Awesome show really enjoyed it thx

I am from the capital of Pakistani Held Kashmir Muzzafrabad, Thank you so so much on talking about this. Jammu and Kashmir is a multiethnic, multilinguistic and multireligious place and it is so nice to see you cover (albeit tragic part of our history where our mother was partitioned between India and Pakistan) Still nice to see this.

Always on the mornings where I have a splitting headache do you upload such wonderful videos. Idk it’s happened so much but I can’t complain 😂

Question: After the partition (1949) what percentage of India was Muslim, and what percentage of Pakistan was Hindu? In 2022 what are the percentages. Good info. if you wish to understand this situation.

Thanks do much for discussing this.

Eagerly awaiting your next video

Very interested in this topic and excited that you are covering it!

We the people of nepal support india with It's Kashmir issue. Pakistan Doesn't have and never had any claim over Kashmir, Since religion cannot be a ground to claim territories.

Shout-out to Magellan TV. I subscribed to Curiosity Stream as the history channels I sub to advertised it but I didn't find it very good, honestly. It's certainly cheap but I just didn't find many videos that interested me. So I tried Magellan not too long ago and I think it's much better; it has tons of videos that interest me in just the history section alone and I haven't even gone into the other sections yet.

Very well researched and very well presented facts .

What a timing, an Indian missile by accident hit Pakistan yesterday.

Thank you explaining this war. Most of the info comes from biased sources from one side or the other. Great to see in-depth overview analysis. Keep up the good work.

Great video!

Not two only one nation created pakistan...India is there from thousands of years

The fact that Pakistan never withdrew its troops as per the ceasefire resolution seems to have been glossed over.

Another excellent video

Just came across this documentary, wow, This is the only channel that gave indepth analysis regarding 1948 indo pak war

As a Pakistani, I can assure you that the comments will be absolutely lit with another war raging right here!

You can make a video about the liberation war of Bangladesh or third Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which is also a significant but mostly uncovered event of Cold War era. The war had started after the massive onslaught of Pakistani forces over Bangladeshi (then East Pakistan) civilians and the declaration of independence by Bengali secular nationalist leader Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman following his arrest on 25th March 1971 and subsequently forced 9 million people to flee to neighboring India which is the biggest event of exodus after the end of ww2. The civil war soon became a regional war as India and later the USSR supported Bangladeshi guerillas while China, the US and the whole Muslim world excluding Iraq supported and supplied weapons to the Pakistani government. India finally intervened militarily on 3 December 1971 and gained rapid victories with the help of Bangladeshi freedom fighters and civilians. At the last stage of war, the US even sent its nuclear-armed largest naval fleet to the Bay of Bengal to couner the Indo-Soviet alliance. The Soviets then sent their nuclear-armed submarines to deter the US military intervention till the capture of Dhaka, the capital then East Pakistan and main base of Pakistani forces, by Indian and Bangladeshi forces on 16th December 1971. It was later revealed that the US had supported Pakistan in the war because Nixon and his national security adviser Kissinger were keen to establish diplomatic relations with China through Pakistani president Yahya Khan, disregarding the opinions of State Department and protests of law makers and civilians at home.

I love your videos, superb narration

....its very nice to see historical coverage of this. Trying to find anything on the subject through the youtube search bar seemed to have yielded mostly a lot of reaction videos?

Long live India ❤️

It's interesting to see a foreigner explaining indian history better than our history books and teachers

Good narration plus history topic = auto subscribe

Thanks

The Brits favoured Pakistan! Unlike the PoK, Pakistan got possession of Gilgit-Baltistan area through the connivance of two British military officers. In 1935, the Gilgit agency was leased for 60 years by the British from the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir because of its strategic location on the northern borders of British India. It was administered by the political department in Delhi through a British officer. The region’s security was the responsibility of a military force called the Gilgit Scouts, which was officered by the British. With impending Independence, the British terminated the lease, and returned the region to the Maharaja on August 1, 1947. The Maharaja appointed Brigadier Ghansar Singh of the J&K state forces as governor of the region. Two officers of the Gilgit Scouts, Major W A Brown and Captain A S Mathieson, along with Subedar Major Babar Khan, a relative of the Mir of Hunza, were loaned to the Maharaja at Gilgit. But as soon as Maharaja Hari Singh acceded to India on October 31, 1947, Major Brown imprisoned Brigadier Ghansara Singh, and informed his erstwhile British Political Agent, Lt Colonel Roger Bacon, who was then at Peshawar, of the accession of Gilgit to Pakistan. On November 2, Major Brown officially raised the Pakistani flag at his headquarters, and claimed that he and Mathieson had opted for service with Pakistan when the Maharaja signed the Instrument of Accession in favour of India. Two weeks later, a nominee of the Pakistan government, Sardar Mohammed Alam, was appointed the Political Agent, and took possession of the territory. Pakistani army soldiers and tribals used it as a base to launch attacks on the other towns and cities of the region like Skardu, Dras, Kargil and Leh. On hearing of Brown’s coup in Gilgit, Sir George Cunningham, who had just been appointed governor of North-West Frontier Province, instructed him to restore order, giving Pakistan de facto control of the region. In the 1948 British gazette, the King-Emperor awarded the “Most Exalted Order of the British Empire to Brown, Major (acting) William Alexander, Special List (ex-Indian Army)”. In the 1970s, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto abrogated the State Subject Rule - the law that until then protected the local demographic composition - to facilitate Pakistani Sunnis to acquire land and settle there. This order damaged the social fabric and provoked sectarian feuds that continue to simmer until today. Later, anti-Shia forces sponsored by Gen Zia-ul-Haq set about altering the ethnic composition of the region; the number of Shias has since come down drastically. Shia-Sunni and Shia-Nurbakshi riots fomented by the Pakistani establishment caused extreme socio-political polarisation in Skardu in the early 1980s. A permanent trust deficit was created in May 1988 when tribal Lashkars, after receiving Zia’s nod, abducted local women and massacred thousands of Shias in Gilgit.

"Since India could not just send troops into a neutral state, an action that would have given Pakistan grounds to act in a similar fashion. All legal formalities had to be followed" India and Pakistan in 1947 observing international better than Russia in 2022.

Finally a KZfaq documentary on 1st Indo-Pak war.

My family was originally from Muzzfrabad. we call our clan " pothwari/ Potohari Biradri, from 🇮🇳

Thank you so much for covering this. Much needed. Also, if you can, please make a video on the 1971 Indo-Pak war, how Russia and USA almost made it to a proxy war over the liberation of Bangladesh. Thanks again for making this video 👏👏

Good video

I'm sorry that this state is in such limbo and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

So pakistanis captured parts of state frm maharaja Indian army recaptured most of dose areas back frm pakistan.. And nehru unwisely went to un to pose as a statesman, othrwisee all of jk wudve been wid indian army

91 thousand soldiers surrender in front of Indian army did you know

Interesting

waiting for this war since years

It was a wonderful video. I read about this in the Book Freedom at Midnight and the version there matches with the Indian version of the Lashkar plan of raiders. I feel sad that 75 years on we have not solved it...but hope we will

6:11 damn currently I'm using bata❤️

EPIC 🤛🏻🤛🏻🤛🏻

You forgot to mention the 1971 war. That was the absolute peak of the cold war.

Well put together

I do like hearing about these kinds of events which are more obscure here in the west.

This is a very interesting video. The only thing I missed in it was any reference the bizarre fact that both India and Pakistan in 1947/1948 were Dominions of the British Commonwealth with George VI as king of two countries at war with each other!

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Great episode guys 👍 finally ... was waiting for this from a long time . Also please consider doing an episode on 1971 war as well as it is very relevant to the cold war as well .

For those who are saying it could be better if kashmir could have became a part of Pakistan Or some other shi*.listen when you ask kashmiris you will find that majority support india not Pakistan, kashmir is legally a part of India, it has signed the instrument of accession .

This war is deep and its a rivalry till today

Maj. (Later retd as Lt. Col) Harichand’s mad dash from Manali to Leh with a small company of Gorkhas, from the 23rd of May ‘48 to the 5th of July, cutting through completely uncharted himalayan terrain, relying only on trails used by nomadic herders, arriving just in the nick of time to relieve an exhausted and undersupplied force of barely 30 men who were beseiged for months, deserves a movie of its own. The action earned the Major his first MVC (Maha Vir Chakra), India’s second highest gallantry award. When the pakistanis were bringing field guns to reduce Leh’s defences later in the summer, he & a small band of experienced raiders went on an 80 km trek, climbing solid rock faces in biting cold to achieve the element of surprise and outflank enemy positions, destroying the guns and killing enemy gunners, with the enemy commander barely escaping with his own life. Later he earned his second MVC for the defence of Chushul in Ladakh during the Chinese aggression of ‘62. I’ve never heard his exploits discussed. A sadly forgotten hero.

Best ever series

xD nice time to post this

Please do a video on the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR.

I have been to the Baramulla area where the Pakistani military was stopped.

*Just a small note* . The part occuppied by Pakistan, which they show as "Azad Kashmir"(Free Kashmir) is neither "Azad" nor "Kashmir". Majority of the residents there are either of Gujjar, Jaat, Potwari, Pahari etc. akin to Hindu Jammuites of India(just their muslim version). Ethnic Kashmiris just make 4% of the total population, which is diminishing rapidly each day. While Kashmiri population of India is growing exponentially. So it's not just about religion in these areas. Caste > religion in POK. So the name more appropriately should be "Occupied Jammu"

The Indian and Pakistani armies at this point were not long ago apart of the same army with seemingly the same training and equipment. Yet it appears the Indians were better organized and employing better tactics.

Funny that this episode should drop today; Yesterday India fired a missile by mistake into Pakistan. They were like "Ooops, it was accident."

Holy cow, is that a Baťa shop in 5:58?

I think this video belonged on Kings and Generals. I personally missed the usual Cold Wat in-depth political and socio-economical analysis of the conflict. And could have spared some of the detailed battle descriptions

These fools came in with thousands of tribesmen and literally lost all of their gains in the valley, the only regions they pushed through in north happened because of British led units. We know the competence of pakistani soldiers.🌚🌝

William Alexander Brown MBE (13 December 1922 - 5 December 1984) was a British military officer based in British-ruled India. He is best known for his actions during the Partition of India, when he assisted the locals of the Gilgit Agency and led a coup d'état against Hari Singh, the Maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The successful coup ultimately resulted in the Gilgit Agency (in today's Gilgit−Baltistan) becoming a part of Pakistani-administered Kashmir following the First Indo−Pakistani War. On 3 June 1947, control of the Gilgit Agency was transferred to the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The state's Maharaja, Hari Singh, appointed Brigadier Ghansar Singh to govern the area on his behalf. The Partition of India took place in August of that year, which divided the former British colony into a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. On 22 October 1947, amidst Pakistani fears of the Maharaja potentially acceding his Muslim-majority princely state to India, state-backed Pashtun tribal militias from Pakistan invaded Jammu and Kashmir and attacked the Maharaja's state forces. As Pakistani militias closed in on the capital of Srinagar by 26 October, Hari Singh had fled from the princely state and signed an instrument of accession for Jammu and Kashmir with India. The decision by the Maharaja-a Hindu Dogra ruler governing a princely state with a Muslim-majority populace-to accede to a Hindu-majority India following the creation of Pakistan was seen as controversial. Dogra rule was unpopular and disliked in every part of the princely state outside of the Jammu region; Prem Nath Bazaz, a Kashmiri scholar, describes Dogra rule in his book as: "The Dogras have always considered Jammu as their home and Kashmir as the conquered country…[T]hey established a sort of Dogra imperialism in the State in which all non-Dogra communities and classes were given the humble place of inferiors…Dogra imperialism brought nothing but misery, thraldom, physical and mental deterioration in its wake…" On hearing of the decision, Brown urged Ghansar Singh to ascertain the wishes of the Gilgit Agency's Muslim community over the accession, and warned him that he may have to take certain measures to avoid large-scale bloodshed. Brown's view on the escalating Kashmir conflict was that the whole of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, including Gilgit, should go to Pakistan in view of the fact that the state's population was predominantly Muslim, and that the foundation of Pakistan's existence was the accommodation of Muslim-majority regions in British India. Singh ignored the warning, prompting Brown to begin planning what became known as 'Operation Datta Khel'. Brown was well aware of the anti-Maharaja sentiments among the populace of the Gilgit Agency. On 31 October, the Gilgit Scouts, under the command of Brown, surrounded the Gilgit Residency and took Col. Ghansar Singh & Wazir-i-wazarat Sehdev Singh Chib along with their families and staff into protective custody. Brown then requested for troops to be sent to the Gilgit Agency from Pakistan and established a de facto military administration on 1 November. On assuming direct control of the region, Brown thwarted plans by a large section of his contingent to set up an independent republic called Gilgit−Astor. On 2 November, he hoisted the Pakistani flag over the capital residency and announced the accession of the Gilgit Agency to Pakistan. He was then instructed by Sir George Cunningham, the then-Governor of the North West Frontier Province to restore order in the region. On 16 November, the Pakistani government sent Muhammad Alam to take control of the region as a political agent and on 18 November, Gilgit and its neighbouring states signed a combined instrument of accession to Pakistan. Brown remained in command of the Gilgit Scouts until 12 January 1948, when he was replaced by Aslam Khan. Brown's actions were strongly condemned by the Indian government who regarded it as an unlawful and unpopular coup, whereas the Pakistani government hailed it claiming that Brown had the full support of the people. Brown himself acknowledged the severity of his actions when he later remarked, "my actions appeared to possess all the elements of high treason. Yet I knew in my own mind that what I had done was right." Brown is also credited to have saved the Hindu minority in Gilgit from being harmed during the war, taking personal risk in doing so. In 1998, Brown's diary from his time in Gilgit was published as a book titled The Gilgit Rebellion. The Government of Pakistan posthumously awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz to Brown in 1993.

It is sad to see that we Indians have to get unbiased information from foreign sources. This was a very well presented video, as always and I salute you for taking the time. Looking forward to the promised future video. Cheers.

If Nehru woundnt have went to UN whole Kashmir would have been of India

Has there ever been a concerted effort to solve this conflict diplomatically over the years? If so, how close to success did it manage to come? Thank you for another informative episode. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

Can you make on the War of 65 and 71 now?

Would love to see an episode on the 1971 Liberation War which has very direct Cold War ties

War when both nations were on fire in communal hatered and on the verge of starvation is so ridiculous. But strangely both India and Pakistan had decent relations till almost 1965 unlike the state of affairs today. Jinnah wanted Junagadh, Hyderabad to also declare independence and be supported by pakistan in case of conflict. Sardar Patel however had other plans. But in the case of J&K I think Patel was ready for some compromise but rebuked by Jinnah after what happened at Junagadh.

The princely states were given three choices. Join India, join Pakistan or remain independent. The iron man of India was responsible for going to all the states and convincing them to join India.

This is a great video, but I wish you had used a map from that time period instead of showing us the present day borders and divisions in Jammu & Kashmir, that would have been more accurate.

The only legal authority to decide the fate of J&K was Maharaja, rest of the elements were simply redundant and could be found in other states too and hence of no legal effects at all. But these other states’ fate were decided by their respective Maharajas or Nawabs. And Maharaja of J&K decided to join India. Simple. Case adjourned

With the amount of propaganda, misinformation and decontextualization in both countries regarding this conflict, this is a great and well researched video. I'd just like to add an interesting factoid for those interested - the Pakistani parts of Kashmir are divided in two parts - one is called Gilgit Baltistan and is host to several non-Kashmiri ethnic groups, and the other is Azad Kashmir which is actually western parts of Jammu as can be observed by the languages spoken there, but people identify now as "Kashmiri" there instead.

Finally, Western historians are now able to recognise & accept the evidence of Pakistan complicity in the invasion on Jammu & Kashmir in spite of a Standstill agreement between the two. Having realised that the state of J&k was gavitating to join India, Pakistan pushed the so called tribesmen assisted by Pakistani army regulars to launch a pre emptive attack of the then independent state of J&K. Anyone opposing the attacker be Hindu or Muslim was subject to a horrific massacre until the state acceded to India & the Indian forces were on their way of repelling the attack in its entirety. Pakistan never adhered to its obligations of the UN resolution & continues to sit on occupied territory (which it calls Azad Kashmir) some of which it has even ceded illegally to China. Things are a lot different today. Peace & tranquillity has returned to Indian J&K and the region continues to grow & develop. The area of J&K under Pakistani occupation remains a cesspool & its only a matter of time when the people of that area will revolt in favour of re-uniting with their Indian brothers.

Indians Transporting tanks on mules back, was crazy.!

Referring to Jammu and Kashmir as "indian occupied Kashmir" is like referring to Mecca as "Saudi occupied Mecca".

Only one new country emerged (pakistan) from dividing one big country ( india)

Please next video on 1971 war instead of 1965 and 1999

18:00 which bgm is this???

next time please cover 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh liberation war

I will never understand why youtubers urge viewers to click the "bell button". I don't believe any of you have considered the implications of it, as that feature can quickly become way more annoying than you think and actually drive away users that only clicked it because you told them so. It just defeats the purpose that bell was created for. If I ever get a notification that I myself have not specifically requested I am more likely to unsubscribe from that channel. I agree that maybe I am not the staple for this but that feature doesn't turn off unless you turn it off, so even if there is mild annoyance it will quickly compound over time. You are basically drawing lines in the sand between your die hard fans and those that are merely casual viewers. The only time it would make sense for you to remind someone to click the bell is when they wanted to do it but somehow forgot... If someone WANTS to see the videos every time you upload, they will actively seek the feature: you can't forget something you want, it will just pop up again in your mind next time. Reminding someone to click the reminder is just senseless.

well to be correct, operation vijay is the name of the offensive operation launched by the Indian armed forces in the year 1999 to push back the pakistani forces from kargil valley.

1971 India Pak war episode needed in Cold War

0:8 hey it wasn't birth of two countries but birth of only Pakistan. India has always been here. Thanks

Taking Kashmir to the UN. Nehru's first of many blunders in independent India.

Make more of such vdos on other subcontinent wars. And in this vdo you should have used the maps according to their time line. The map you show at 9:22 is a modern map of the region. The map of Kashmir back then in 1947 was completely different. So a request kindly use the factually correct maps according to the time line.

Congratulations.

Can’t lie. It is very impressive what the Pashtun Tribal forces managed to achieve against a the professional Indian army (who had ww2 experience). These where mere tribesmen who held their own against a whole army. Hats off to them.

Would like to see the cold war, talk about the Nigerian Civil War or the biafrian war of liberation 🙌🏾

Some information which will help you to understand the India's side on Kashmir. India under the British Raj consisted of two types of territory, British India and 550+ Princely states. British india was under the direct rule of the British crown and Princely states were in subsidiaries alliance with the British india. As per the Indian independence act of 1947 1) British announced the Division of British India into the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. 2) The treaty relations between Britain and the Indian princely states would come to an end and Princely state would be free to accede to one or the other of the new dominions or stay independent But independence was never an option for the princely states as per the Mountbatten plan. 3) the Princely states who shared borders with both india and pakistan could only decide, whether they want to join either india or pakistan.That means Land locked princely states who shares borders with india couldn't join Pakistan and vice-versa 4) Legally , the rulers of the princely states (not the population) had the right to accede to india or pakistan or stay independent. Coz princely states were still the authoritarian states And as per the point no 4. Hindu Maharaja of princely state of Kashmir had the right to choose the fate of his state not the population of Kashmir.