Narendra Singh Sarila has brought out the ‘great game’ of Britain to eventually accede J&K to Pakistan. On 16 October 1947, a top secret appreciation was prepared in the Commonwealth Relations Office. This was done a week before the Pakistani invasion of J&K: ‘If war developed (and even Gandhi has hinted at this possibility)…it is likely to unite India [and] to bring about the downfall of Pakistan. Before Pakistan was finally liquidated it seems probable that frontier tribes of Afghanistan would enter the struggle and it is not impossible that Soviet Russia might play a part. The effect of the
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