the Nizam and his militia, known as the Razakkars, that was manifest in the Telengana people’s movement led by the communists there which provided the legitimacy to “the police action”. Though Patel had been negotiating with Maharaja of Kashmir since , Hari Singh was opposed to accession. However, in a few months after independence – in October – marauders from Pakistan raided Kashmir and there was no way that Maharaja Hari Singh could resist this attack on his own. Before India went to his rescue the Instrument of Accession was signed by him at the instance of Patel.
Thus Kashmir too became an integral part of the Indian Union. This process and the commitment of the leaders of independent India to the concerns of the people of Kashmir led the Constituent Assembly to provide for autonomous status to Instrument of Accession: A legal document, introduced in Government of India Act, , which was later used in the context of Partition enabling Indian rulers to accede their state to either India or Pakistan. Nizam of Hyderabad Maharaja Hari Singh (Article which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir was abolished in and declared as a Union Territory.) - - - - Reconstruction of Post-colonial India new provinces of Andhra, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Its report, submitted on December , , listed out reasons against the idea of linguistic reorganisation in the given context.
It dealt with each of the four proposed States – Andhra, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra – and concluded against such an idea. However, the demand for linguistic reorganisation of states did not stop. The issue gained centre-stage with Pattabhi Sitaramayya’s election as the Congress President at the Jaipur session. A resolution there led to the constitution of a committee with Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Pattabhi Sitaramayya and Jawaharlal Nehru (also called the JVP committee).
The JVP committee submitted its report on April , . It too held that demand for linguistic states, in the given context, as “narrow provincialism’’ and that it could become a “menace’’ to the development of the