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How India lost Balochistan and NWFP

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Today one of India's biggest problem is the security of its borders that is being regularly disturbed by joint effort of pakistan and China. As many of us know that we had done a big blunder in case of Tibet as we don't had and border with China in 1947. Similarly the mistakes done by us in case of pakistan is not only limited to kashmir but we had also done some major mistakes in the case of Balochistan and NWFP (two of the four provinces of pakistan which consists of more then 60% land are of pakistan) Referendum in NWFP NWFP was the only muslim mejority provinces left with congress after the provincial election of 1946. The congress with his partner red shirt had an absolute majority in the province under the leadership of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan ( Badshah Khan)  The drama started in 1946 after pt. Nerhu become the vice President under cabinet mission. His oath changed the entire environment of the province. While congress committee of frontier was not happy with the decision...

Operation POLO and unified india

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After the partition one of the major problem that india was facing was to keep the rest of the nation United. Sardar Patel as the first home minister of the state palyed a historic role with the first home secretary VP Menon. Patel in one of his speech on linguistic states told that the primary work of the leaders was to keep the nation United as other things could wait for some time.  According to the 3rd June plan (Mountbatten plan) princely states were free to join either india, pakistan or remain independent. Patel and Menon urged the Indian princes to show their patriotism and join the Indian Union by signing the Instrument of Accession. By 15th August 1947 as many as 136 states had acceded to indian union. However, accession of Hyderabad, junagarh and kashmir was more difficult then the rest. In these states Hyderabad was the only state against which India used military power. Hyderabad was a landlocked but sprawling state in the center of the Deccan plateau and covering thre...

The bravest battle of Indian history: THE BATTLE OF CHAMKAUR

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Can you imagine a war where 40 faced 1 million and can you think of its result. I am sure that u will suprise to know about this battle which was fought  between 10 lakhs Mughal fauj headed by Wazir Khan and merely 40 sikh headed by Guru Gobind Singh Ji in the year 1704. After the assassination of Guru Teg Bahadur by Aurangzeb and his men Guru Gobind Singh become the 10th and last Guru of Sikhism and founded a new Khalasa panth as a military group. After knowing about the rising power of Guru , Aurangzeb began to worry and he had earlier asked the Mughal faujdar to 'reprimand the Guru'.  Then after he ordered the subedars of sarhind and Lahore to help the local kings against Guru Gobind Singh. After which the Mughal army made frequent attack on Anandpur( the capital city) but the sikh fought bravely and thwart all the Mughal attack. Now the Mughals did another trick and surrounded the fort. When starvation spread inside the fort, Guru Govind Singh felt compelled to open the do...