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In the Rajatarangini, a history of Kashmir written by Kalhana in the mid-12th century, it is stated that the valley of Kashmir was formerly a lake. According to Hindu mythology, the lake was drained by the great rishi or sage, Kashyapa , son of Marichi, son of Brahma , by cutting the gap in the hills at Baramulla ( Varaha-mula ).
12 October 1947 (): K. H. Khurshid, Jinnah's private secretary, was sent to Kashmir to mobilise support for Pakistan, and reported: "Muslim Conference is now practically a dead organisation." He advocated Pakistan to use force, and "supply arms and foodstuff to the tribes within and without the state."
Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Sayyid Ali completed in 1579; Tarikh-i-Kashmir by an anonymous writer (Aumer 287) written in 1590; Baharistan-i-shahi, also anonymous, written in the time of Jahangir; Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Hasan b. Ali Kashmiri also written in the time of Jahangir; Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Haidar Malik completed in 1620–21.
In 1966, he expanded the book into a large two-volume work titled The McMahon Line. [8] Lamb also came to be recognised as an expert on the juridical and diplomatic history of the Kashmir dispute. [9] He wrote his first book on the Kashmir conflict in 1966, titled The Crisis in Kashmir. This was soon after the Second Kashmir War.
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The history of Kashmir, from 1846 to 1947 part of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu, and from 1947 divided between the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (now split into Ladakh and the union territory Jammu and Kashmir) and the Pakistani territories of the Gilgit Agency and Baltistan (now amalgamated as Gilgit-Baltistan) and Azad Kashmir.
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