Re: maharaja of lahore
League was always pro landlord, that was the reason that Congress didn’t form coaltion government in UP because league was pro landlord. And there were no caste like poor and power loving pundas:)
Of course william and family was unfit to rule but there were no replacement either, we had hitler and Saudi family to rule the world then, British were far more civilized rulers than Maharajas of Lahore and Pune types:)
It was only connection through plains to Jammu not kashmir, all connections to Kashmir flow through Jammu, Jammu being Hindu majority cannot remain in India hands without Gurdaspur. It was settled in favour of India, the other muslim majority territory was Lakshdweep which India got:)