My Dear Lord Mountbatten, I have to inform Your Excellency that a grave emergency has arisen in my State and request the immediate assistance of your Government. . . . Though we have a standstill agreement with Pakistan Government that Government permitted a steady and increasing strangulation of supplies like food, salt, and petrol to my State. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315838212-29/accession-kashmir-wendy-singer