The province of Jammu and Kashmir's unique promotion, similar to all other royal states, was on three issues: guard, outside undertakings, and interchanges. All the August states were welcome to send delegates to India's Constituent Assembly, which was planning a constitution for the entire of India. They were likewise urged to set up constituent congregations for their own states. Most states were not able to set up gatherings in time, however, a couple of states did, specifically Saurashtra Union, Travancore-Cochin, and Mysore. Despite the fact that the States Department built up a model constitution for the states, in May 1949, the rulers and boss clergymen of the considerable number of states met and concurred that different constitutions for the states were a bit much. They acknowledged the Constitution of India as their own constitution. The states that elected constituent gatherings recommended a couple of alterations which were acknowledged. The situation of the considerable number of states (or associations of states) in this manner ended up proportional to that of standard Indian regions. Specifically, this implied the subjects accessible for enactment by the focal and state governments was uniform crosswise over India.

On account of Jammu and Kashmir, the delegates to the Constituent Assembly asked for that lone those arrangement of the Indian Constitution that compared to the first Instrument of Accession ought to be connected to the State. As needs be, the Article 370 was joined into the Indian Constitution, which stipulated that alternate articles of the Constitution that offered forces to the Central Government would be connected to Jammu and Kashmir just with the simultaneousness of the State's constituent get together. This was a "transitory arrangement" in that its appropriateness was expected to last till the detailing and reception of the State's constitution. In any case, the State's constituent gets together broke up itself on 25 January 1957 without suggesting either annulment or correction of the Article 370. Along these lines, the Article has turned into a changeless element of the Indian constitution, as affirmed by different decisions of the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, the most recent of which was in April 2018.