Conflict Between Kashmir and India 1947

1. Kashmir Before 1947

Background
Conflicts between countries in South Asia are affected most countries international relations
in South Asia. The conflict occurred between India and Pakistan that has continued until now. The
conflict started since the post-independence India and Pakistan. There are areas in the name of
Kashmir is disputed between the two countries. Kashmir area fertile and drained by major rivers,
which influences the geographic South Asia as a whole. That's what makes these two countries
continue the conflict until today.1 Moreover why India-Pakistan conflict occurs because the two
countries are trying to achieve national interests (National Interest) of each country. In this case is
related to the ownership of the territory of Kashmir. Pakistan considers that India had annexed
Kashmir and this is one reason why the struggle over Kashmir between Pakistan and India.

3. The Conflict between Hindu and Islam in Kashmir 1947

Kashmir's territory is situated between India and Pakistan has a Hindu monarchy which at
that time held by Maharaja Hari Singh. Therefore, Hari Singh felt closer to India. Meanwhile, the
majority of Kashmiris are Muslims so by Mountbatten, should integrate Kashmir with Pakistan.
This dilemma makes Hari Singh independence is the best alternative to Kashmir. Therefore, until
the independence of India and Pakistan was proclaimed, Singh has not yet decided to join one of
these countries.
At the beginning of October 1947, there was a rebellion in Poonch district. The uprising was the
culmination of an internal conflict, which broke out as a result of the policy of Maharaja Hari
Singh, who since August 1947 in an act of impeachment against the soldiers who came from
residents of Poonch and replace them with soldiers Hindu and Sikh.On September 21 October 1947
the rebellion is uprising peaked.Its combined citizens Pathan, Muslim, Pakistan and Kashmiri
rebels occupied the Hindu population Muzafarbad then drove from it. In 24 October 1947 the
rebellion proclaimed the founding group of the State Azad Kashmir. The attack by the rebels did not
stop there. They continue its efforts to take over other cities in Poonch, and began to approach the

Abu Al-Ashari,the born conflict of kashmir,2001,University of Baghdad

summer capital, Srinagar.2 This conflict are the beginning of war between the Hindu Dogras
ethnicity and Muslim in Kashmir.

Mohammad Mohsin Al-Anwari,the critic on political ethnic through hind-muslim in Kashmir,

journal,University of Al Azhar,Egypt 2003