Sheikh Abdullah

Sheikh Abdullah
Sheikh Abdullah on a 1988 stamp of India
3rd Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
25 February 1975 – 26 March 1977
In office
9 July 1977 – 8 September 1982
Succeeded byFarooq Abdullah
1st Elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
31 October 1951 – 9 August 1953
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byBakshi Ghulam Mohammad
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Independent state
In office
5 March 1948 – 31 October 1951
Preceded byMehr Chand Mahajan
Succeeded byHimself
President of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
In office
October 1932 – August 1981
Personal details
Born5 December 1905[1]
Soura, Jammu and Kashmir, British India
Died8 September 1982 (aged 76)[1]
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India [2]
Political partyJammu and Kashmir National Conference
SpouseBegum Akbar Jahan Abdullah
ChildrenFarooq Abdullah, Suraiya Abdullah Ali, Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, Khalida Shah
Alma materIslamia College Lahore
Aligarh Muslim University[3]

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir.[4] Abdullah was the founding leader of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (later renamed Jammu and Kashmir National Conference) and the 1st elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India. He agitated against the rule of the Maharaja Hari Singh and urged self-rule for Kashmir.[5]

He served as the 1st elected Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir[6] and Jammu & Kashmir as a State and was later jailed by Indian government citing his support to Insurgents.[7][failed verification] He was dismissed from the position of Prime Ministership on 8 August 1953 and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad was appointed the new Prime Minister. The expressions 'Sadr-i-Riyasat' and 'Prime Minister' were replaced with the terms 'Governor' and 'Chief Minister' in 1965.[8] Sheikh Abdullah again became the Chief Minister of the state following the accord with Indira in 1974 and remained in the top slot till his death on 8 September 1982.[9]

  1. ^ a b Hoiberg, Dale H. (2010) p 22-23
  2. ^ "MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH DIES; LED INDIA'S STATE OF KASHMIR (Published 1982)". The New York Times. 9 September 1982.
  3. ^ Tej K. Tikoo (19 July 2012). Kashmir: Its Aborigines and Their Exodus. Lancer Publishers. pp. 185–. ISBN 978-1-935501-34-3. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah" (PDF). eparlib.nic.in. Eminent Parliamentarians Monograph Series. Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. 1990. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Guha, Ramachandra. "Opening a window in Kashmir." Economic and Political Weekly (2004): 3905-3913.
  6. ^ Lamb, Alastair. The Myth of Indian Claim to Jammu and Kashmir: A Reappraisal. World Kashmir Freedom Movement.
  7. ^ Ganguly, Šumit (1996). "Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay". International Security. 21 (2): 76–107. doi:10.2307/2539071. ISSN 0162-2889. JSTOR 2539071.
  8. ^ Noorani, A.G. (7 July 2011). Article 370 : a constitutional history of Jammu and Kashmir (1. publ. ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198074083.
  9. ^ Rakesh Ankit, "Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah of Kashmir, 1965–1975: From Externment to Enthronement." Studies in Indian Politics 6.1 (2018): 88-102 online.

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