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'''Akbar Jehan Abdullah''' (1916 – 11 July 2000) was an Indian Kashmiri politician.<ref name= Tribune-11Jul00/> The wife of [[Sheikh Abdullah|Abdullah Sheikh]], three-time [[Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]], she twice served as a Member of [[Parliament of India|India Parliament]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/comb/combalpha.htm#13lsa |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627204233/http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/comb/combalpha.htm#13lsa |archive-date=27 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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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]].<ref>Sheikh Abdullah; M.Y.Taing (1985), p193</ref> She married Abdullah in 1933.<ref name= Tribune-11Jul00/><br />
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==Political career==<br />
She served as a member of [[6th Lok Sabha|6th]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-05-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185438/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf |archivedate=18 July 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and [[8th Lok Sabha]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-05-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718184911/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf |archivedate=18 July 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> from 1977 to 1979, and from 1984 to 1989, representing Kashmir's [[Srinagar]] and [[Anantnag]] constituencies, respectively.<br />
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She had the distinction of being the first President of Jammu and Kashmir Red Cross Society from 1947 to 1951. She also served as Chairman of State Level Committee of International Year of Women, 1975 and President of all India Family Welfare Association, State Branch, 1976 and All India Women's Conference, State Branch in 1977.<br />
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==Later life and death==<br />
Jehan Abdullah died on 11 July 2000 in Srinagar at the age of 84.<ref name= Tribune-11Jul00>{{cite news |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000712/main1.htm |title=Vajpayee invites CM for talks, Farooq’s mother laid to rest |date=11 July 2000 |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)]]}}</ref><br />
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==Personal==<br />
She is the mother of the Kashmiri politician [[Farooq Abdullah]], who succeeded his father Abdullah Sheikh as J&K chief minister in 1982, and grandmother of [[Omar Abdullah]].<br />
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*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000712/main1.htm Farooq's mother laid to rest]<br />
*[http://www.twocircles.net/2007jul12/nc_pays_tributes_begum_akbar_jahan.html NC pays tributes to Begum Akbar Jehan]<br />
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