{"id":53234,"date":"2023-03-08T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/08\/kashmir-letters-cast-doubt-claims-nehru-blundered-agreeing-ceasefire"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:00:16","slug":"kashmir-letters-cast-doubt-on-claims-nehru-blundered-by-agreeing-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53234","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir letters cast doubt on claims Nehru blundered by agreeing ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: papers kept classified for decades reveal India\u2019s first PM acted on advice from most senior general<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was urged by his most senior general to agree to a ceasefire with Pakistan in 1948, the Guardian can reveal after viewing letters on Kashmir that have been kept classified in India for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The correspondence from the then commander-in-chief, Gen Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher, will have significant political ramifications for the current nationalist government in Delhi, which has discredited Nehru\u2019s decision to come to a compromise on the status of disputed Kashmir as an ill-informed \u201cblunder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/08\/kashmir-letters-cast-doubt-claims-nehru-blundered-agreeing-ceasefire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: papers kept classified for decades reveal India\u2019s first PM acted on advice from most senior generalIndia\u2019s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was urged by his most senior general to agree to a ceasefire with Pakistan in 1948, the Guardi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,433,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53235,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234\/revisions\/53235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}