The partition of the South Asian sub-continent resulted in two sovereign states, India and Pakistan in 1947. That was the year in which India and Pakistan gained freedom. It was also the year in which the people of Jammu and Kashmir began a new era of suffering. Most histories of conflicts have been written in favor of the winner and occupiers and this is true in the case of the Kashmir in which much have been written from Indian or Pakistani perspectives and much less so from a Kashmir perspective.