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Many Muslims of JK army deserted or mutinied and killed their own colleagues/officers, and Hindus and Sikhs were being slaughtered wantonly in western Jammu. Nehru and Patel watched indifferently. Desperate to save dharmics of JK, Maharaja Hari Singh gave his kingdom to Abdullah.
What happened when Maharaja Hari Singh gave his kingdom to Abdullah and acceded to India? Indian forces were diverted to Kashmir valley, while the Dogra troops fighting to the last man and last bullet were completely ignored and left to die. Nehru and Abdullah didn't want Jammu.
For Abdullah, Jammu was a source of competition. He didn't want Jammu [which was bigger than Kashmir] in the state. Or rather, he wanted as small a Jammu as possible. If that meant that the Hindus and Sikhs of Jammu would be slaughtered, so be it.
For Nehru, it was all a matter of indifference. He was too busy pretending to be a `statesman'. When the Hindus and Sikhs of Mirpur [a town in western Jammu holding out against the Pakistani invaders] came to him to ask for help, he bawled them out. They were irrelevant.
Patel did one better. When the Hindus and Sikhs were fighting for their lives in Jammu, he sent a message to Pakistan asking to swap Jammu and Kashmir for Hyderabad. He didn't care about the state, even though it had acceded. Accession and Indian sovereignty meant zilch to him.
Western Jammu, thus, got no help. Dharmics there were slaughtered or expelled. What was saved was saved only after Maharaja Hari Singh threatened to cancel the accession to India and go and accede to Pakistan to stop the slaughter of Hindus and Sikhs in Jammu.
It was then that Nehru was jolted. He realised that Maharaja Hari Singh meant what he said, and grudgingly sent soldiers to save Jammu. This, then, is the story of the Indian betrayal of dharmics of Jammu and Kashmir. No Indian leader cared about dharmics of Jammu and Kashmir.
And now, a few shameless charlatans are telling us that the one man, His Royal Highness, Maharaja Hari Singh, who did everything to save Jammu and Kashmir from the invaders is the one to blame `for dithering'.
