Documents Related to Jammu and Kashmir
English
translation of the Persian text of the treaty signed at Leh on second of Asuj 1899 Bikrami
- September 1842 - between the Government of Maharajah Gulab Singh and the Government of
Tibet
Treaty of
Amritsar, March 16, 1846
Excerpts of telegram dated 26 October, 1947 from Jawaharlal
Nehru to the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
Text of Lord Mountbatten 's letter dated 27 October, 1947 to
signify his acceptance of the Instrument of Accession signed by the Kashmir Maharaja.
Letter from
Maharaja Hari Singh to Lord Mountbatten in 1947
Instrument
of Accession executed by Maharajah Hari Singh on October 26, 1947
Nehru's telegram to Liaqat Ali Khan On 27 October 1947
Nehru's telegram to Liaqat Ali Khan on 3l October, 1947
Extracts from Nehru's Broadcast on 2 November, 1947
Nehru's reiteration of plebiscite pledge in a telegram to Liaqat
Ali Khan of 3 November, 1947
Nehru's address to Constituent Assembly of India On 25 November,
1947
Government of India's letter to the Security Council, 31
December, 1947
United Nations Documents
Archive on Kashmir
Indian
Complaint to the Security Council, Letter Dated January 1, 1948 from the Representative of
India to the President of the Security Council (S/628)
Letter of
the Maharaja Hari Singh to Sardar Patel, 31 January 1848
Indian Delegation Leader, Mr. Gopalaswami Ayyengar, address to
the Security Council
Kashmir (Asim Mughal)
UN Security Council Resolution 38, 1948
UN Security Council Resolution 39, 1948
UN Security Council Resolution 47, 1948
UN Security Council Resolution 51, 1948
Resolution adopted by the United Nations Commission for India and
Pakistan on 13 August 1948.
Resolution adopted at the meeting of the United Nations Commission
for India and Pakistan on 5 January, 1949.
Agreement
between Military Representatives of India and Pakistan regarding the Establishment of a
Cease-fire Line in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, (Annex 26 of UNCIP Third Report -
S/1430 Add 1 to 3), 29 July, 1949
Proposal in respect of Jammu and Kashmir made by General A.G.L.
McNaughton, President of the Security Council of the United Nations, pursuant to the
decision of the Security Council taken at its 457th meeting, on 22 December, 1949.
UN Security Council Resolution 80, 1950
UN Security Council Resolution 91, 1951
Speech of
Shiekh Mohammad Abdullah in the Constituent Assembly, 1951
UN Security Council Resolution 96, 1951
Text of
Memorandum submitted by 14 Muslim leaders of India to Dr. Frank P. Graham, United Nations
Representative, 14 August, 1951
UN Security Council Resolution 98, 1952
ARTICLE 370 OF
THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION, Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and
Kashmir, 17 November 1952
UN Security Council Resolution 122, 1957
UN Security Council Resolution 123, 1957
UN Security Council Resolution 126, 1957
Statement of the President of the Security Council (French
Representative) made on the 18th May, 1964, at the 1117th meeting of the Security Council
Tashkent
Declaration, January 10, 1966
Simla
Agreement, July 2, 1972
The Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front
H.P. Srivastava, "Kashmir," Collier's Encyclopedia, 1998
Vernon
Hewitt, "Kashmir: The Unanswered Question," History Today, Vol. 47, no.
9 (September 1997)
Jammu-Kashmir
Liberation Front
South Asian Intelligence Review
Legal and Constitutional position
of Kashmir by Shabir Choudhry
Analysis of the Government of India's
response to Amnesty International's report on torture and deaths in custody in Jammu and
Kashmir
Oberoi Surinder Singh,
"Kashmir is Bleeding," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol.
53, no. 2, (March-April 1997)
World Wide Web
Virtual Library, Kashmir
Information Resource Center,
Canadian Forces College, Contemporary Conflicts: Kashmir
Sumit Ganguly, "Explaining the
Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay," International
Security, Vol. 21, no. 2 (Fall 1996)
Organization of Islamic
Countries Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir, Geneva, 15 April 1996
"The KASHMIRI WAR: Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law," A Briefing Paper of the Humanitarian Law Project,
Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, Prepared by Karen Parker, J.D., Presented to The
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 1996 Session, March, Geneva
United Nations, General
Assembly, "RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SELF-DETERMINATION, Use of mercenaries as a
means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples
toself-determination, Note by the Secretary-General, A/49/362, 6 September 1994
(excerpts)
Kashmir Information Network
"Branding Harkat a terrorist outfit: Focus shifts to Pak
complicity," Hindustan Times, NEW
DELHI, Oct. 10, 1997 (By Apratim Mukarji)
Global Hindu Electronic
Network: Bharat (India): HSC Kashmir Campaign: Kashmir Reference Center
HomePage of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Kashmir
Matters by Moin Ansari
Pakistan Link, "Gujral says no to priority
talks on Kashmir," 22 February 1998
Congressional
Research Service, Updated April 21, 1995, "India-U.S. Relations," by Barbara
Leitch LePoer, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
U.S., White House, BACKGROUND
BRIEFING BY SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS, May 19, 1994
Voice of Kashmir
Devin T. Hagerty,
"Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: The 1990 Indo-Pakistani Crisis," International
Security, Vol. 20, no. 3 (Winter 1995)
Jammu and Kashmir: The Complete Knowledge Base
Government of Pakistan,
Page on Kashmir
THE
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY TOWARD SOUTH ASIA, HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, OCTOBER 22, 1997
"Kashmir issue: India
terms Pak proposals as 'neurotic'," Business Recorder, 2 August 1998
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi
The Kashmir Times
The Truth About Kashmir
Kashmir Today
South Asia Terrorism Portal, Project
of the Institute for Conflict Management
Kashmir Live, Express
India
BBC
News, "Flashpoint Kashnir: Special Report"
Pakistan Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Kashmir and Jammu Dispute
Amin
Saikal, "The Enhanced Dangers of a Clash Over Kashmir," International
Herald Tribune, 29 May 1999
PRAFUL
BIDWAI , "From Pokharan to Kargil: The Nuclear Danger Is No Fantasy,"
The Times of India, 2 June 1999
Achin
Vanaik, "The warning from Kargil," The Hindu, 1 July 1999
Mohammed
Farooq, "WAR IS NO SOLUTION," The News (Lahore), 6 June 1999
Mohua
Chatterjee, "When gunfire blew out the peace candles," Times of
India, 25 June 1999
Zia
Mian, "Law rather than War on Kashmir," The News on Sunday
(Pakistan), 13 June 1999
Siddharth
Varadarajan, "Don't Escalate Kargil To All-Out War," The Times
of India, 18 June 1999
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