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Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah

Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah (1916 – 11 July 2000) was an Indian Kashmiri politician.[1] The wife of Abdullah Sheikh, three-time Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, she twice served as a Member of India Parliament.[2]

Akbar Jehan was the daughter of Michael Harry Nedou, the eldest son of the European owner of an Indian hotel chain that included Nedous Hotel in Srinagar, and his Kashmiri wife Mirjan. Nedou was himself the proprietor of a hotel at the tourist resort of Gulmarg.[3] The writer Tariq Ali claims that Akbar Jehan was previously married in 1928 to an Arab Karam Shah who disappeared after a Calcutta newspaper Liberty reported that he was actually T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)Mubashhir Hassan (2008) a British Intelligence officer. He claims that Akbar Jehan was divorced by her first husband in 1929. She married Abdullah in 1933.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Tribune-11Jul00 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Sheikh Abdullah; M.Y.Taing (1985), p193

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