Accession of Kashmir to India would not have been possible without the support of Muslims, the Congress Party said in the Lok Sabha Thursday December 07, 2023.
When Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury made these remarks, BJD’s Bhartruhari Mahtab said that history should not be distorted. “I would like to say that let the book, that Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary referred to, be placed on the table of the House,” Mahtab said.
Mani Shankar Aiyar, while reviewing Sandeep Bamzai s Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India in the Open Magazine, wrote, quoting extensively from the book:
Nehru never hid his contempt for India's monarchs. He loathed the "gilded and empty-headed maharajas and nawabs who strut about the Indian scene and make a nuisance of themselves". To belittle his contributions to the freedom movement .
Mani Shankar Aiyar, while reviewing Sandeep Bamzai s Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India in the Open Magazine, wrote, quoting extensively from the book: