Kashmir is the heaven of World

 

Kashmir : is situated at the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the great Himalias and the pir panjab mountain range. 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 autonomous territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgis-Baltistan, and the Chinese-administered conflict regions of Aksai chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.

Kashmir is one of india’s most wonderful and touristically popular regions and has been since the time of the great Moghul emperors. It’s probably most beautiful and famous for the houseboats on picturesque Dal Lake you’ve not really been to Kashmir until you have not really been to Kashmir until you have stayed on one - but there’s a lot more to the Kashmir Valley than just lazing on board.
Jammu Kashmir is the first Himalayan state of India, but its not another hill land of India. Jammu and Kashmir is really three regions: the foothill plains of Jammu; the lakes and blue valleys of Kashmir rising to alpine passes, the high altitude plains and starkly wonderful mountains of Ladakh, which lies beyond those passes. It's enough to move one to poetry. Among the most beautiful part that this Indian state has is the adventure oppurtunities that can be seggragated into trekking, mountaineering and Trans Himalayan Jeep.

History

In the first half of the 1st millennium, the Kashmir state became an important point of Hinduism and later of  Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1349, Shah Mirbecame the 1stMuslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Salatin-i-Kashmir or Swati dynasty. For the next five centuries, Muslim monarchs ruled Kashmir, concluded the Mughals, who ruled from 1526 until 1751, and the Afghan Durrani Empire; which ruled from 1747 until 1820. That year, the Sikhs, under Ranjit Singhs, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh fight, and upon the purchase of the state 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 of the British Crown, lasted until 1947, when the former princely state became a dispute territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China.