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Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed taking oath of office as Prime Minister of Kashmir.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah in Kathua Jail.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Chowdhry Ghulam Abbas and Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, Jawaharlal Nehru and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
INTERNATIONAL LEADERS
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with President Sukarno of Indonesia.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Nikita Khruschev, Dr. Karan Singh and Alexei Kosygin.
NATIONAL LEADERS
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of India.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Karan Singh.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Govind Ballabh Pant.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Acharya Vinobha Bhave.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Pratap Singh Kairon.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Charan Singh.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with V. K. Krishna Menon.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Swaran Singh.
KASHMIRI LEADERS
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah and Sadruddin Mujahid.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Ghulam Mohammed (Gul) Shah.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed with Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq and Kushak Bakula.
HANDS-ON ADMINISTRATIVE STYLE
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed supervising highway repairs.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed supervising fire-fighting operations.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed supervising flood-relief operations.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed on Tour
"The relations between Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, Prime Minister of Kashmir and his people are unique in India. The people's familiarity is such that it can at times be embarrassing, indeed even dangerous.

There are no policemen, no bamboo enclosure, everyone can, like the beggar woman or the madman, cram nearer the platform, can indeed climb into it, as many do.

Perhaps the most striking feature of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed's relations with his people is even more than his insistence on complete mixing, on having no guards, on allowing every village Tom, Dick and Harry to come and slap him on the back, on letting every woman pull his sleeve in her anxiety to present her petition.

Touring with the Premier of Kashmir requires a sturdy constitution and all round athletics, from knowing how to ride, swim and climb to the art of elbowing one's way out from an over-enthusiastic concourse of friendly and overpoweringly persistent welcomers.

His people think nothing of making him walk 5 additional miles because they want him to see something that is not on his programme. And Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed has to go, despite an old fractured leg ; his people will not take 'NO' for an answer. When one remembers that the Prime Minister of Kashmir tours his parish 3 days a week, for 17 hours a day, one will agree with the little boy who, after just an afternoon with Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed concluded "it is terrible to be Prime Minister".

("Manchester Guardian", London)
 
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed at the entry point of the (planned) Jawahar Tunnel
People's Darbar
 
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed at the weekly Darbar.
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed explaining the events of 1953 to National Conference workers.
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