Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: LYON, Jean
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.172545

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Kashmir Personalities; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / Jean Lyon [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; typed label: Abbas – 1 – Chaudri Ghulam Abbas, pro-Pakistan Kashmiri / leader. During the pre-independence days Abbas worked for / a time side-by-side with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah (first / Kashmir Prime Minister on the India side, but now jailed - / see “Kashmir” personalities), then split with im when / he and his followers went along with Gandhi and Nehru / cooperating with the Indian National Congress. Ghulam / Abbas became leader of the Muslim League in Kashmir, / and followed the lead of Jinnah, the father of Pakistan. / Ghulam Abbas has ben in semi-retirement in Pakistan, / but he and his followers hope that he will one day / make a come-back as a leader of a Kashmir / that will be part of the Muslim State of Pakistan

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / KASHMIR
Retouching: N