It is my contention that the case was made when a substantial majority voted
for the MGP in the very first election to the Assembly, soon after the
territory was acquired. A similar claim extends to the police actions that saw
Hyderabad and Junagadh acquired from the local Nawabs.
I will not make the same the same arguement for Nepal's Dorjeling province,
the Tibetan kingdoms of Ladakh, Sikkim and Bhutan, Burma's Khmer fringe - Naga,
Mizo, and the grand prize of them all, over one half of 'Afghan country': that
term saw the the invading East India Compay deny the Kingdom even existed.
Peshwar-Rawalpindi was the king's summer capital until Durand got his way, and
created the North West Frontier Province which is now lorded over by Punjabi
muslims. Kabul had also fallen to Britain, until a counterattack in which all
two hundred Company officers and all twenty thousand Sikh sepoys perished.
'British' India would never have seen the light of day without the eager
helping hand of very anti-muslim and, yes, anti-hindu, raja of Patiala.
Britain 'liberated' Tibet in 1855 and occupied Lhasa for a year. The
occupying force was defeated and evicted a year later. eric.
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