First Kashmir War

The India-Pakistan War of 1947-48 is also known as the First Kashmir War. It was fought between the Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan over the former Princely state of Kashmir and Jammu from 1947 to 1948.

This was the first of four wars fought between the two newly independent nations. The war initially begun as a rebellion by the mainly Muslim Pahari rebels in western Kashmir against the mainly Hindu Dogra rulers of the Jammu and Kashmir state and it turned into a full fledged war between India and Pakistan. The result of the war still affects the geopolitics of both the countries. The result of the war was inconclusive. However, neutral assessments seem to agree that India was the victor of the war because it was able to successfully defend about two-thirds of the Kashmir,^[1] including Kashmir valley, Jammu and Ladakh.^[2]

First Kashmir War Media

Indian soldiers fighting in 1947 war
Pakistani soldiers during the 1947–1948 war
Partition of India and the movement of refugees
Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, Supreme Commander of Indian and Pakistani armed forces
Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir
The Poonch Jagir on the western frontier of Jammu and Kashmir (1946)
Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan
Murree, overlooking Kashmir
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
A Pakistan Army convoy advances in Kashmir

References

↑ Kulke, Hermann; Rothermund, Dietmar (2004), A History of India (Fourth ed.), Routledge, p. 324, ISBN 9780415329194, The Indian army defended Kashmir against Pakistani aggression.
↑ Wilcox, Wayne Ayres (1963), Pakistan: The Consolidation of a Nation, Columbia University Press, p. 66, ISBN 978-0-231-02589-8, The war for states had not only ended in Indian military victory but had given its leaders enormous self-confidence and satisfaction over a job well done.

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[Kulke-1] Kulke, Hermann; Rothermund, Dietmar (2004), A History of India (Fourth ed.), Routledge, p. 324, ISBN 9780415329194, The Indian army defended Kashmir against Pakistani aggression.

[Wilcox-2] Wilcox, Wayne Ayres (1963), Pakistan: The Consolidation of a Nation, Columbia University Press, p. 66, ISBN 978-0-231-02589-8, The war for states had not only ended in Indian military victory but had given its leaders enormous self-confidence and satisfaction over a job well done.

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