My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was ‘run’ as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.
So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.
I thought Kashmir was run by a Hindu at the time and they chose to go with India rather than Pakistan.
Definitely we can blame imperialism for a lot but some of the disputed territory wasn’t Brittain’s fault, afaik
My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was ‘run’ as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.
So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.