ABSTRACT
On 26 January 1950 the Dominion of india passed into history; the Republic of India was born. Exactly seven years later the State of Jammu and Kashmir finally became an integral part of the Union of India after the Constituent Assembly of the State ratified the Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh in October 1947. The Azad Kashmir Government was set up in the dirty provincial town of Muzaffarabad as the rightful regime of the state. This government, headed by Sardar Mohammed Ibrahim, controlled a narrow sliver of territory with a total area of about 5,000 square miles. The most far-reaching concessions were made to the State of jammu and Kashmir. In 1958 the All india Services like the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service were extended to Kashmir. Political developments in Pakistan further stalled a solution of the Kashmir tangle.
