In 1948, the Kashmiri political leader Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, who had been a strong opponent of Dogra rule in Kashmir, made his pact with India by standing next to Jawaharlal Nehru and reciting a Persian couplet: ‘Mann tu shudi, tu mann shudi, Ta kas na goyed, Man degram tu degri.’ (I became you and you became me, so nobody can think of us as separate.)
