D Deka wrote: > Didn't the other states like Bengal, Bombay, Madras etc. send > representatives the same way as Assam did? If so, are you implying > that accession is not binding on any of the states? > What am I missing in your statement?
Dilip-da:
I am questioning the whole idea of India as "voluntary union". The union of India has devolved on all of us through the historical process of dissolution of the British empire and the way it happened - it came down from the top.
There was no formal accession of any British Indian province (only by princes of the princely states). The provinces simply moved from suzerainty of the crown to the power of the dominion created by an act of British parliament to the power structure created by representatives of pre-independence state assemblies.
As there was no accession, the question of it being "binding" or not does not arise.
Santanu.
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