Speeches And Interviews And The Role Of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed overtime

The Present work is the collection of some selected Speeches, statements and letters of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah the Lion of Kashmir. This volume reveals fascinating facts about Jammu and Kashmir Politics and throws flood of light on Shiekh s firm conviction on limited accession with India. In an interview to London Times, on March 8, 1972, he is recorded to have said:- Our dispute with the Government of India is not about the accession but about the quantum of State s internal autonomy. Nobody should forget that it were we, who brought Kashmir to India, otherwise it would never be a part of India The selected Speeches, statements and letters of this work can make the reader to understand, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the towering Personality of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, in right Perspective. The researchers, the teachers and the students of State Government and Politics can definitely be the beneficiaries of this compilation.

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed overtime.