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In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Shah Mir dynasty. For the next five centuries, Muslim monarchs ruled Kashmir, including the Mughal Empire , who ruled from 1586 until 1751, and the Afghan Durrani Empire , which ruled from 1747 until 1819.
Following is the detailed treaty of Amritsar: Treaty of Amritsar March 16, 1846 The treaty between the British Government on the one part and Maharajah Gulab Singh of Jammu on the other concluded on the part of the British Government by Frederick Currie, Esq. and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of her Britannic ...
The first group of volunteers were sent to Pakistan-administered Kashmir for training in militancy. [232] September 1983 (): Ansarul Islam, possibly the first Islamist militant group in Kashmir and a precursor to the Hizbul Mujahideen, was founded by Hilal Ahmed Mir. In 1985–86, it started sending members to Pakistan and Afghanistan for armed ...
Schofield, Victoria (2003) [First published in 2000], Kashmir in Conflict, London and New York: I. B. Taurus & Co, ISBN 1860648983 Shiekh, Abdul Rashid (2014), "The economic roots of the national awakening in Jammu and Kashmir 1846 to 1947" , University , Aligarh Muslim University/Shodhganga, hdl : 10603/23085
The Raja of Jammu Gulab Singh, who was a vassal of the Sikh Empire and an influential noble in the Sikh court, sent expeditions to various border kingdoms and ended up encircling Kashmir by 1840. Following the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846), Kashmir was ceded under the Treaty of Lahore to the East India Company, which transferred it to ...
In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism. During the 7th-14th centuries, the region was ruled by a series of Hindu dynasties, [22] and Kashmir Shaivism arose. [23] In 1320, Rinchan Shah became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Kashmir Sultanate. [4]
The first Anglo-Sikh war was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 around the Ferozepur district of Punjab. It resulted in the defeat and partial subjugation of the Sikh empire and cession of Jammu & Kashmir as a separate princely state under British suzerainty .
The history of Kashmir, from 1846 to 1947 part of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu, and from 1947 divided between the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (now split into Ladakh and the union territory Jammu and Kashmir) and the Pakistani territories of the Gilgit Agency and Baltistan (now amalgamated as Gilgit-Baltistan) and Azad Kashmir.