At a glance
- Roles
- Politician · activist
- Region
- South Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas (4 February 1904 – 18 December 1967), known by the title Raees-ul-Ahrar, was a Kashmiri politician and lawyer, a leading figure of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference and of the movement for Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.1 Born in Jammu and educated at Prince of Wales College in Jammu and the Law College in Lahore, he organised the Young Men's Muslim Association in Jammu and in 1932 co-founded the Muslim Conference alongside Sheikh Abdullah and Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah.12
Arrested in 1946, he was released in 1948 and crossed to Pakistan, where he headed the Muslim Conference in Azad Kashmir.1 He died in Rawalpindi on 18 December 1967; his autobiography, Kashmakash, was published posthumously in 2010.13
Connections
- Born in
- Jammu· Jammu and Kashmir· British Raj
- Died in
- Rawalpindi· Punjab· Pakistan
People and things also explored
Josh Malihabadi· Lahore· Afghan–Maratha War· Battle of Ucha (1222)· Abdul Hai Arifi· Abdul Haleem Chishti Nomani· Abdul Hameed Khan Swati· Molana Abdul Haq Baloch
Sources
- Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas — English Wikipedia
- Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas — Urdu Wikipedia
- Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas — Wikidata
- Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas — Arabic Wikipedia
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/chaudhry-ghulam-abbas/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.