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Chasing article 370
The people were to rule, not a foreign or indigenous monarch. This is reflected in the Constitution which begins by taking its authority from, "We the people of India". And Article 370 of that Constitution raises the fundamental issue of whether territory should get priority over people.
Continuing differences over Article 370 (originally numbered 306-A) of the Indian Constitution represent much more than disagreement over the autonomy to be enjoyed by the State of Jammu and Kashmir. From the day the Article was drafted in October 1949, it became the point of collision of sharply opposing viewpoints on whether the new India, would be kept together by a centralised authority, as in the past, or by the consent of its peoples.