In 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia.

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Nehru agreed, and so did the outgoing British Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. (A pragmatist, Mountbatten noted that Kashmir was more closely linked, through religion and geography, to Pakistan than India.) As a result, the maharajah was asked to sign only a treaty of temporary accession to India.

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