The agreement, whose terms are described as amounting to a "capitulation" to India, restated the conditions of Jammu and Kashmir's merger with India since 1953 with a "platently hypocritical clause" that the state's administration would be maintained under Article 370. Scholar Sumantra Bose points out that 23 constitutional orders had already been made by the mid-1970s to integrate the state into the Indian Union and 262 Union laws had also been already applied to the state.[6] Despite retaining Article 370, the state was called "a constituent unit" of the Indian Union. The Indian government was able to control "the areas which mattered most" by being able to make laws concerning activities aimed at rejecting Indian sovereignty.[7] The Accord only granted the state government the right to review those laws which were specifically from the Center and State's shared list of "concurrent powers" extended after 1953 to the State.