Real history of Kashmir-- Kashmir history Rajatarangini - treaty of Amertser

Real history of Kashmir-- Kashmir history Rajatarangini - treaty of Amertser

According to some historians, the real history of Kashmir begins probably from five thousands years before Christ. — It is said that Sri Ram Chandra of Cylon was the first who established a Kingdom in Kashmir. For about six hundred and thirteen years Dayakarm and his 55 successors are said to have ruled in Kashmir, Somadotta was the last of the line. Gonada I became King in 2448 B.C.— 

Sir Aurel Stein has translated the most celebrated book on Kashmir history Rajatarangini in which he writes that the Kashmir is unique in the region of India being the only state which possesses an uninterrupted series of written record of its history.— 

Lalitaditya Muktapidia (725-753 A.D.) was one of the greatest Kings of Kashmir. He was described as the universal monarch moving around the Earth like the Sun. He was the conspicuous figure in Kashmir history. He raised his country to a pitch of glory it had never reached before. 

And it is claimed that he defeated Arab forces lad by Muhammad Bin Qasim’s successor in Sindh Junaid and overran his history. The reign of the Muslim King Zainul Abdin Bud Shah (1420-1470) was an other golden period of Kashmir history. He constituted a climax never attained by any other independent King in Kashmir.— 

The Mugal emperor Akbar occupied Kashmir in 1586 and this was the beginning of the dark period of Kashmir history. The State independence had been curtailed for about 300 years when the British government, after its occupation over Indian sub-continent, sold Kashmir to Hindu Maharaja Gulab Sing in 1846 through a bilateral treaty called ‘treaty of Amertser’— 1 

The British occupation over Indian sub-continent was in two ways; directly and indirectly. British India was under direct control of the Crown but the Indian States were semi independent. The States had surrendered their Sovereignty to the Crown through bilateral treaties and were autonomous in their internal affairs.

It is generally accepted fact that up to about the beginning of the fourteenth century the population of the valley was Hindu and Buddhist, and that about the middle and the end of the century the mass of the people were converted to Islam through the efforts of Shah i Hamdan.

The advent of Islam into Kashmir, traditionally a Buddhist and Hindu region, resulted in many Kashmiri Muslims being descendants of Hindus. The prevalence of common Kashmiri Pandit family names among contemporary Kashmiri Muslims is indicative of Hindu lineage.

source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Muslim_tribes_from_Hindu_Lineage