Quotes from Katherine Frank

Thus, both Mountbatten and Nehru stipulated that the ultimate fate of Kashmir should be settled 'by reference to the people', and on 2 November Nehru broadcast on All India Radio that 'we are prepared when peace and law and order have been established to have a referendum'.

Nehru reiterated this pledge in a telegram to the new Pakistani Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, and added 'we have agreed to an impartial international agency like the United Nations supervising any referendum'.

In November 1917, however, instead of myth, there was only regret over the birth of a girl. But not devastation. Kamala