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Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | ABDULLAH, SHEIKH MUHAMMAD [Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad], 1905-82, nationalist leader in Kashmir, known as the Lion of Kashmir. |
 | | He became active in political reform while a student at Lahore Univ. and was frequently imprisoned from 1931 for urging self-rule for Kashmir, a region now divided between Indian and Pakistan. |
 | | After denouncing (1953) India's treatment of Kashmir, he was removed as prime minister and generally kept in preventive detention by the Indian government, although he was allowed to play a more active role in the early 1970s. |
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