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Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range.Contemporarily, Kashmir denotes a larger area that includes the Indian administered state of Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh), the Pakistani administered Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, and the Chinese-administered regions of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract. The United Nations and other local entities use the designation Jammu and Kashmir to geographically denote said area.
According to the Mahabharata, the Kambojas ruled Kashmir during the epic period with a Republican system of government In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important center of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1349, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir and inaugurated the Salatin-i-Kashmir or Swati dynasty.Dogra Rule, under the paramountcy (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until 1947, when the former princely state signed an accession treaty with India after raiders from Pakistan attacked it. India accepted the accession, regarding it provisional until such time as the will of the people can be ascertained by a plebiscite, since Kashmir was recognized as a disputed territory. India applied to the United Nations a for resolution of the issue and a temporary line of control was created. The plebiscite demanded by the UN and promised by India in Indian White Paper on Kashmir was never conducted due to intransigence on the part of both India and Pakistan. Thus began a problem that still remains unresolved with the disputed territory now administered by the three countries of India, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China
