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Kashmir (/ ˈ k æ ʃ m ɪər / KASH-meer or / k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / kash-MEER) is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range.
The most interesting of these colonies is that of Kuki-Khel Afridis at Dranghaihama, who retain all the old customs and speak Pashtu." [109] Among the main tribes of Muslims in the princely state are the Butts, Dar, Lone, Jat, Gujjar, Rajput, Sudhan and Khatri. A small number of Butts, Dar and Lone use the title Khawaja and the Khatri use the ...
Kashmir, the map of City of Srinagar, India (Date unknown, probably 17th-18th century) To the north of the kingdom was the Maqpon Kingdom of Baltistan, to the west was the Gakhar Kingdom of Pothohar, to the east was the Namgyal Kingdom of Ladakh, and to the south was the Dogra Kingdom of Jammu and the Lahore Subah.
Jammu and Kashmir was the only Indian state to have its own official state flag, along with India's national flag, [98] in addition to a separate constitution. Designed by the then ruling National Conference, the flag of Jammu and Kashmir featured a plough on a red background symbolising labour; it replaced the Maharaja's state flag. The three ...
Kashmir was formally annexed in December 1540, and coins were issued in the name of Humayun. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Sultan Nazuk Shah was set up on the throne as a puppet. [ 87 ] Kaji Chak and Regi Chak, the only two generals who were fighting the Mughals, and also fought in the Battle of Vahator on 13 August 1541, died in 1544 and 1546 respectively. [ 88 ]
Jammu [b] and Kashmir [c] (abbreviated J&K) is a region administered by India as a union territory [1] and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959. [3]
East Punjab to Punjab (change effective from 26 January 1950; state later trifurcated into modern-day Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966; Chandigarh became a Union territory and the shared capital city of Punjab and Haryana) [1] [2] United Provinces to Uttar Pradesh (change effective from 24 January 1950)
The Chak dynasty (Persian: چک, Persian pronunciation: ; Kashmiri: ژَکھ, Kashmiri pronunciation:) was a Kashmiri dynasty of Dardic origin [1] [2] that ruled over the Kashmir sultanate in medieval Kashmir after the Shah Mir dynasty.