Word: bakshis
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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There was bound to be trouble, and the Lion's captors knew it. First, they moved Abdullah close to the Indian border. Then Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, the new pro-Indian Premier, told Kashmiris that independence would turn the state into another Korea. In New Delhi, Nehru's officials lamely claimed that India was told of the arrests only "after they had taken place." (Prince Karan Singh and Bakshi were in India last month for talks with Nehru.) In Kashmir itself, a crowd of the Lion's followers marched on the Prime Minister's residence, cursed...