Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmiri girls performing the Rouf dance at a festival in New Delhi, India, 2011
Ethnic Kashmiri girls in traditional pheran
Kashmiri Hindu priests in the 1890s
Image: Bakhshali manuscript
Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)
Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists 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 1959. The Line of Control separates Jammu and Kashmir from the Pakistani-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan in the west and north. It lies to the north of the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and to the west of Ladakh which is administered by India as a union territory.
Image: Pahalgam Valley
Image: Dal Lake Hazratbal Srinagar
Image: Shalimar gardens
Image: Mata Vaishno Devi Bhawan, Jammu. India