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B.R Ambedkar's View of Article 370 Replying to Sheikh Abdullah
>>Barely had India recovered from Pakistani aggression in Kashmir, when it created yet another complication for itself.
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B.R Ambedkar's View of Article 370 Replying to Sheikh Abdullah
>>Barely had India recovered from Pakistani aggression in Kashmir, when it created yet another complication for itself.
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>> This, despite the warning by Babasaheb Ambedkar and the reluctance of Sardar Patel to be associated with what came to be known as Article 370 of the Indian constitution on 17 October 1949.
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We tend to forget some important markers from our past; otherwise, we should have set in stone these words spoken wisely by B.R. Ambedkar when he refused to draft Article 370.
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B.R Ambedkar told Sheikh Abdullah in 1948:
"" You wish India should protect your borders, she should build roads in your area, she should supply you food grains, and Kashmir should get equal status as India. But the Government of India should have only limited powers and
B.R Ambedkar told Sheikh Abdullah in 1948:
"" You wish India should protect your borders, she should build roads in your area, she should supply you food grains, and Kashmir should get equal status as India. But the Government of India should have only limited powers and
Indian people should have no rights in Kashmir. To give consent to this proposal would be a treacherous thing against the interests of India, and I, as the law minister of India, will never do it.""
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>>Ambedkar was prophetically correct in saying that this proposal would be treacherous. Yet, Nehru had insisted that Article 370 be adopted by the parliament.
>>Besides the gap this created between Kashmir and the rest of the country, it also retarded the development of the
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>>Besides the gap this created between Kashmir and the rest of the country, it also retarded the development of the
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region because of the restrictions it put on settlement and the practical difficulties in setting up industries there.
>>Ever since, it has proved to be a wasteful millstone for the country and ruinous for the state itself.
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>>Ever since, it has proved to be a wasteful millstone for the country and ruinous for the state itself.
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>>Acc to the statements in the parliament, and by common consensus, it was meant to be a temporary provision. But Article 370 lingered on out of fear of the reaction from the Valley’s politicians should it be repealed. Added to this was the worry about Pakistan’s mischief.
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>> However, the background to its introduction was once again the idealism of Nehru and his strong belief that temporary aberrations like Article 370 would be taken in the spirit that they were first introduced in.
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