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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (2531)	3/5/1998 8:20:00 AM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9980

Mohan to put the Kahmir issue finally to rest... a futher point perhaps. Hyderabad, a Muslim state in Central India, was forcibly occupied by Indian troops in 1947. It had a Hindu majority ruled over by a Muslim ruler. Am I correct so far? As a quid pro-quo it would seem to me that a Muslim princely state ruled over by a Hindu king should be allied with a Muslim state. To me in hindsight it seems that nothing more than territorial greed seems to be at the base of Indian-Kashmiri politics from 1947 to the present moment. If you are saying that greed doesn't matter - that both Hindus and Muslims - are included in the Indian union and that religion is a non-issue in the Indian union... then Pakistan should never have existed in the first place. Still with me I hope. I move on to today, to this moment. My point is that 255 seats just went to the BJP and Indian's have said: (a) that Hinduism is an issue! (b) that Hindus having said this...that India has no pretense really that it is a secular state where both Hindu's and Muslims co-exist: (c) that Kashmir is, it will be in the future and it was in the past... merely the first brick to fall out of the wall of the Indian-union. Personally, I believe that the dream of an Indian union began to fall apart when Mountbatten absolutely sold out, first the Indian princes and abrogated all the British solemn treaties in regard to the princes(who ruled 1/3 of India)and, next, when the British government gave into the Jinnah faction in the Congress party and created Pakistan. Politically, everything... absolutely every single political act follows from the compromises of 1947 and the poisoned cake that was served to all the participants on Indian Independence Day. The particulars of this poisoned feast are just now being digested fifty years after Independence and the next generation are the beneficiaries of the nutrients of this cancerous feast.