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“Psychologically we have lost it and it would be difficult to get back to
the older position. You will appreciate how it has distressed me to see
the hard work of several years washed away by this movement. In
the ultimate analysis, we gain Kashmir if we gain the goodwill of the
people there” (emphasis added, throughout; Selected Works of
Jawaharlal Nehru; volume 22, pages 203-205). In 2002, the RSS
admitted that in 1952 it had “agitated in the name of Praja Parishad”.
Nehru tried to “control” the situation by arresting Abdullah on August
9, 1953, and inflicted a wound that has still not healed. Is New Delhi
about to repeat that mistake in 2008?