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  "ar": "بريم ناث بازاز",
  "en": "Prem Nath Bazaz",
  "ur": "پریم ناتھ بزاز"
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  "ar": "بريم ناث بازاز سياسي وصحفي ومؤرخ كشميري من البانديت، شارك الشيخ عبد الله في تأسيس صحيفة همدرد، ثم انفصل عن المؤتمر الوطني، وكتب تاريخاً مرجعياً لنضال كشمير من أجل الحرية.",
  "en": "Prem Nath Bazaz was a Kashmiri Pandit politician, journalist and historian who co-founded the Hamdard newspaper with Sheikh Abdullah, broke with the National Conference over its direction, and wrote standard histories of Kashmir's freedom struggle.",
  "ur": "پریم ناتھ بزاز کشمیری پنڈت سیاست دان، صحافی و مؤرخ تھے جنھوں نے شیخ عبد اللہ کے ساتھ اخبار ہمدرد کی بنیاد رکھی، بعد میں نیشنل کانفرنس سے علیحدگی اختیار کی، اور کشمیر کی جدوجہد آزادی کی معتبر تاریخ لکھی۔"
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  "latest": 1985.0009924912583
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   "note": "Born in Srinagar. The English article and Wikidata give 13 July 1905; a 5 December 1905 date also circulates in secondary retellings — that is Sheikh Abdullah's birth date and is treated as a conflation. The Hijri year is 1323 under either reading and is derived tabularly.",
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   "note": "All consulted sources give only the year 1984 — the queue's 1940 death year is wrong. No Hijri year is carried: a bare Gregorian year spans two Hijri years (1984 falls across 1404–1405 AH).",
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   "note": "All consulted sources give only the year 1984 — the queue's 1940 death year is wrong. No Hijri year is carried: a bare Gregorian year spans two Hijri years (1984 falls across 1404–1405 AH).",
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    "note": "Settled on two independent prose attestations of the man himself: the English biography states he was born to a Kashmiri Hindu family, and a 2025 peer-reviewed article styles him 'the Kashmiri Pandit socialist Prem Nath Bazaz'; the Kashmir Sentinel essay likewise treats the Kashmiri Pandit community as his own, recording that Pandits considered him a renegade from it. Category filings and the 'Pandit' name element were not counted. He was a secularist in politics; the value records his communal religious identity exactly as the sources state it.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia biography of Prem Nath Bazaz (Q55630398), the Kashmir Sentinel essay on him and a 2025 peer-reviewed article, read in full; the queue's 1940 death year is wrong — he died in 1984 — and his Kashmiri Hindu identity is settled on the two-source prose rule recorded in the faith note.",
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