History of Kashmir
The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent in South Asia with influences from the surrounding regions of Central, West and East Asia. Historically, Kashmir referred to only the Kashmir Valley of the western Himalayas. Today, it also denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered union territories of Jammu and Kashmir (which consists of Jammu and the Kashmir Valley), Ladakh, the Pakistan-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-administered regions of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract. Archaeological evidence of the presence of archaic humans in the Kashmir Valley dates to the palaeolithic period, and evidence suggests settled human life during the neolithic period. During the Vedic period, Indo-Aryan tribes migrated into Kasmira—the Kashmir Valley as known to the Vedic people. Mauryan rule introduced Buddhism into Kashmir by the third century BC. Kashmir became an important centre of...
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