A report on Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Kashmir and Jammu division

Political map of the Kashmir region, showing the Pir Panjal range and the Kashmir Valley or Vale of Kashmir
Topographic map of Jammu and Kashmir, with visible altitude for the Kashmir valley and Jammu region.
Pahalgam Valley, Kashmir
A high-altitude alpine lake in the Himalayan range in Jammu and Kashmir
Nanga Parbat in Kashmir, the ninth-highest mountain on Earth, is the western anchor of the Himalayas
Lama dance at Jummoo,
Jammu and Kashmir union territory (J and K) is bordered in carmine colour. Ladakh union territory (L) is bordered in blue colour.
Map of India in 1823, showing the territories of the Sikh empire (northermost, in green) including the region of Kashmir
Maharaja Gulab Singh, the founder of princely state of Jammu and Kashmir
Srinagar railway station
1909 Map of the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu. The names of regions, important cities, rivers, and mountains are underlined in red.
Kashmir region divided across Pakistan, India and China (map by CIA)
NH1 near Sonamarg
The prevailing religions by district in the 1901 Census of the Indian Empire
Tawi River
University of Kashmir during autumn
A white border painted on a suspended bridge delineates Azad Kashmir from Jammu and Kashmir
The Vaishno Devi shrine attracts millions of Hindu devotees every year
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on postal stamps of India
Topographic map of Kashmir
Bahu Fort
Apples of Kashmir are famous for their taste
K2, a peak in the Karakoram range, is the second highest mountain in the world
Raghunath Temple
Boteh from an Antique Kashmiri Dochalla Shawl
The Indus River system
The Shivkhori cave
Inauguration of the first Khelo India Winter Games
Large Kashmir Durbar Carpet (detail), 2021 photo. "Durbar", in this context, means Royal or Chiefly.
Machail Mata
Vaishno Devi Temple in winter
A Muslim shawl-making family shown in Cashmere shawl manufactory, 1867, chromolithograph, William Simpson
Lohri bonfire
Shalimar Gardens
A group of Pandits, or Brahmin priests, in Kashmir, photographed by an unknown photographer in the 1890s
Dal Lake
Brokpa women from Kargil, northern Ladakh, in local costumes
Amarnath Cave

Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consisting of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947, and between India and China since 1962.

- Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)

The Jammu division is a revenue and administrative division within Jammu and Kashmir, a union territory of India.

- Jammu division

Today, the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-administered territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistani-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-administered territories of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.

- Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is named after the two regions it encompasses – the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley.

- Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)

In the west, the Line of Control separates Jammu from Pakistani-administered Kashmir (known as Azad Kashmir in Pakistan).

- Jammu division

It includes almost the whole of the Jammu province.

- Kashmir

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Azad Kashmir

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Landscape of Azad Kashmir
Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification
Paddy field in Leepa valley
A 1946 map of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir; present-day Azad Kashmir constitutes areas of the three western-most districts
Muzaffarabad, the capital city of Azad Kashmir
Bagh City
Districts of Azad Kashmir
Kotla, Bagh District
Neelum Valley is a tourist destination in Azad Kashmir.
Munda Gali, Leepa Valley
Mirpur University of Science and Technology

Azad Jammu and Kashmir, abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.

On its eastern side, Azad Kashmir is separated from the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (part of Indian-administered Kashmir) by the Line of Control (LoC), which serves as the de facto border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir.

The people of this region culturally differ from the Kashmiris living in the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir and are closer to the culture of Jammu.

Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar, c. 1895 CE

Kashmiri Pandits

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The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India.

The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India.

Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar, c. 1895 CE
Photograph of the Martand Sun Temple, Hardy Cole's Archaeological Survey of India Report 'Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir.' (1869)
1872 painting depicting Srinagar, with Pandits in the foreground
Three Hindu priests writing religious texts – 1890s, Jammu and Kashmir
An artpiece of three Kashmiri Pandit women
Kashmiri couple getting married in a traditional ceremony at Jammu
Divine Colours of the Divine Spring
Ruins of Martand temple
Sharda Peeth
Mount Harmukh
A Kashmiri pandit woman, photograph by Fred Bremner, circa ~1900

They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region located within the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

The local organisation of pandits in Kashmir, Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti after carrying out a survey in 2008 and 2009, said that 399 Kashmiri Pandits were killed by insurgents from 1990 to 2011 with 75% of them being killed during the first year of the Kashmiri insurgency.

A large number settled in the Jammu Division of the State and the National Capital Region of India.