the maharaja with whom it began | EUROtoday

QUand a battle has been laborious for nearly 80 years, when it’s endemic, which he calms all the way down to ignite once more, comes the second after we neglect the origin, if we’ve by no means identified it. Why do India and Pakistan tear for cashmere? The reply holds in a single date: 1947.

And partly to a person whose title will say nothing to the French, the Maharaja Hari Singh, Hindu prince of a state of cashmere on which his household, the Dograms, reigned since 1846 – since his ancestor, Gulab Dingh, had paid a number of million rupees to the English to accumulate an unlimited territory close to the Himalayas that the British got here to overcome a defeat Sikhs who partially held him.