ABSTRACT
In Pakistan it was not quite so simple. Jinnah had, in a sense, threatened Congress before Independence by wooing the Princes with better terms than India was prepared to offer: in effect by promising them the same relationship as they had had with British India. The wilier Princes responded by playing him at his own game: Bahawalpur (See Fig. 10.2) toyed with the idea of acceding to India, and actually for pertinent reasons. It was dependent on the irrigation water of the Sutlej projects, and feared the worst (as seen in chapter 11, the ruling Nawab had some reason) if it were separated politically from the headworks. The mountain States of Dir, Chitral and Swat were also wooed by Congress, and indeed had no great affection for the plainsmen of Punjab.
