ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the little-known history of Junagarh’s referendum (1948) at the moment of British paramountcy lapsein the Indian subcontinent. The dissonance between the Muslim nawab’s decision and the Hinduprajas’ (subjects)choice enables a unique field of study. It draws attention towards ‘choices’ as a dimension of Partition/border-making study and towards direct democracy practices as means of ‘resolving’ border/territory-related conflicts.
Describing itself as anecdotal history,this chapter seeks as its point of intervention, the even less known plebiscite that was held in Pajod, a feudatory of Junagarh and narrated as an anecdote by the ‘last prince of Pajod,’ during COVID-19 lockdown from Rajkot of India.
