By August 15, ................all states geographically contiguous to India, except Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagadh, had acceded to India by signing the Instrument of Accession.

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• In the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the conditions were the reverse, with the ruler being a ................. and the population, } overwhelmingly Muslim (75%).
• Resurgence in the activities of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) following the return of ...............from UK to Pakistan in early 1987.
• Pakistan's Independence Day is celebrated on ................. August and India's on 15 August 1947.
• Junagadh in ...................whose population was overwhelmingly Hindu (80%), was ruled by a Muslim ruler.
• ............... had decided in June 1947 to become an independent state, and it was followed by Hyderabad.
• General ................., the military governor made a statement from Hyderabad, calling all “communists to surrender within a week, failing which they would be exterminated”.
• Before Indian independence, ..............state was a princely state within the territory of British India, comprised of three linguistic regions: the Telugu-speaking Telengana area (including the capital city, Hyderabad), the Marathi-speaking Marathwada area, and a small Kannada-speaking area.
• There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............
• The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at the stroke of midnight on 14–15 August.............
• India attained Independence on 15th August ...............