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Jammu and Kashmir

British  

noun

  1. the official name for the part of Kashmir under Indian control

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Supplies first travel by truck or train to depots in the neighboring region of Jammu and Kashmir, then move by truck convoys to Leh, the capital city of Ladakh.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 25, 2025

Tourism is the mainstay of the economy of Jammu and Kashmir, a federally-administered territory, and this unprecedented targeting of tourists sent shockwaves through India.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2025

In the 1950s, India approved a semiautonomous status for Jammu and Kashmir in its national constitution, allowing the state to establish its own laws and fence off its land from outsider settlers.

From Slate May 14, 2025

The sloppy land-parceling that decided the Indo-Pak boundaries fueled mass displacement and death, and also left the territorial status of border regions like Jammu and Kashmir in dispute.

From Slate May 14, 2025

His elder brother, the Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir, is in many respects of a different type.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.

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