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Word: boycotted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurt" by the plight of his onetime friend Sheik Abdullah who, with Nehru's reluctant consent, has now spent four years in prison for having flirted with the idea of Kashmiri independence rather than union with India. When it came to explaining why Nehru had ended his boycot-since Sheik Abdullah still sits in jail-Nehru was somewhat less frank. Ostensibly, he had come to look at the receding floodwaters that recently inundated 700 Kashmiri villages. In fact, he had come to bolster India's position in the decade-old quarrel between India and Pakistan over possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KASHMIR: Trouble in the Vale | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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