ABSTRACT

Sheikh abdullah had been picked by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947 as the one man who was expected to be the redeemer of India’s point of view. A large amount of literature of various opinions is available with regard to why Abdullah gradually began moving away from the stand he had earlier taken or atleast given the impression of taking with regard to the issue of the accession of Jammu & Kashmir to India. By the beginning of 1952 the problems and issues for which the Praja Parishad had been raising its voice had begun to draw countrywide attention. Most biographers of Nehru have drawn attention to how very often emotions and intuitive impulses guided him even when it came to major decisions. It is important to note that close and careful observers of Abdullah had begun to take a serious note of the changes that had begun to occur in his stand on key issues.