History of Kashmir | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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History of Kashmir


00:01:49 1 Etymology
00:02:06 2 Historiography
00:04:17 3 Early history
00:05:56 4 Muslim rulers
00:11:16 4.1 Prelude and Kashmir Sultanate (1346–1580s)
00:11:26 4.2 Mughals (1580s–1750s)
00:14:27 5 Sikh rule (1820–1846)
00:15:37 6 Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu (Dogra Rule, 1846–1947)
00:17:45 7 1947
00:20:54 8 Post-1947
00:23:40 9 Historical demographics of Kashmir
00:29:28 10 Gallery
00:33:28 11 See also
00:33:37 12 Footnotes
00:34:17 12.1 Notes
00:34:26 12.2 Citations
00:34:34 13 Bibliography
00:34:43 13.1 Historiography
00:34:54 14 External links
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The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions, comprising the areas of Central Asia, South Asia and East Asia. Historically, Kashmir referred to the Kashmir Valley. Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir (which consists of Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, and Ladakh), the Pakistan-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan, and the Chinese-administered regions of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.
In the first half of the 1st millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later in the ninth century, Shaivism arose. Islamization in Kashmir took place during 13th to 15th century and led to the eventual decline of the Kashmir Shaivism in Kashmir. However, the achievements of the previous civilizations were not lost.
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. That year, the Sikhs, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. The rule of his descendants, under the paramountcy (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until 1947, when the former princely state became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China.