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What is so extraordinary about the Indian case is that it has been badlyand comprehensively mismanaged...there was no need for Nehru—or Mountbatten for that matter—to insist that a popular vote was necessary to "ratify" Hari Singh's signature on the Instrument of Accession, and there was no need to take the matter to the UN. The Instrument of Accession is a final legal document making Jammu and Kashmir an integral part of India.