Abstract
A S PARTITION of British India neared, the Governor-General, Lord Mountbatten, advised that decisions of accession (whether to accede to India or Pakistan or to remain neutral) should depend on factors of geographic compulsion, and strategic and economic importance.' Unfortunately, the British neither defined nor amplified these terms, and the rulers of the Indian States requested no interpretation of them. The Lahore Resolution of I940,2 which called for the consolidation of contiguous Moslem majority areas in the northwestern and eastern parts of the subcontinent, received much more attention. There has been no strict adherence to either of Lord Mountbatten's suggestions, and among the disputes that have arisen regarding accession the Kashmir issue has been prominent.
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