‘BURDEN OF HISTORY’ Z. G. MUHAMMAD     Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and Home Minister, Sardar Patel were not on the same page on overwhelmingly Muslim majority State becoming part of union of India. Nehru, was obsessively working for it since 1946. And after Lord Mountbatten arrived in India as the last British Viceroy, Nehru reviving his old friendship with him ‘never lost an opportunity to ‘arguing in favour of Jammu and Kashmir joining India.’  In June 1947, before Mountbatten leaving for Srinagar for meeting Maharaja Hari Singh, Nehru handed over a memorandum to the Viceroy arguing for accession of the state to India- and this memorandum became Viceroy’s bible on Kashmir. Contrary to Nehru’s overzealousness about Kashmir, many historians have recorded that Sardar Patel was not interested in the State joining India. … Read entire article »