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This article covers the history of Kashmir from earliest recorded times to the present day. ... According to folk etymology, the name "Kashmir" means "desiccated land" (from the Sanskrit: Ka = water and shimeera = desiccate). In the Rajatarangini, a history of Kashmir written by Kalhana in mid-12th century, it is stated...
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Kashmir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kashmir (Balti: کشمیر; Dogri: कश्मीर, Gojri: کشمیر; Poonchi/Chibhali: کشمیر; Kashmiri: कॅशीर, کٔشِیر; Ladakhi: ཀཤམིར; Shina: کشمیر; Uyghur: كھسىمڭر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontin...
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History of Kashmir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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: "Tribesmen" from Pakistan invade Kashmir with the support of the Pakistani government. The ruler of Kashmir asks India for help. India demands that Kashmir should accede to India first. The ruler agrees. India sends forces to Kashmir and the invasion is blocked.
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India and Pakistan fought three wars between 1947 and 1972, with Kashmir as the main battleground. Ever since, Kashmir has been in pieces, with India and Pakistan occupying most of it, and China a small portion. Both India and Pakistan claim all of it to be rightly theirs.
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Kashmir and the subcontinent has a rich and tumultuous history. We can pick up the pieces in the nineteenth century, but the actual history of Kashmir begins much much much earlier, before Islam or Hinduism was present on the soil of our lands.
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Rai, Mridu: Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir.(Book Review) ... find History: Review of New Books articles. Rai, Mridu Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir Princeton, NJ: Princeton ... ... Mridu Rai, an assistant professor of history at Yale University,
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