Kashmir

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[kash-meer, kazh-, kash-meer, kazh-]

noun

1. a former princely state in southwest Asia, adjacent to India, Pakistan, Sinkiang, and Tibet: sovereignty in dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947. Also Cashmere

2. Official Name Jammu and Kashmir. the part of this state occupied by India, forming a state in the Indian union. About 39,146 sq. mi. (101,387 sq. km). Srinagar (summer); Jammu (winter).

kashmir

²

[kazh-meer, kash-]

noun

1. a variant of cashmere.

kashmir

¹

/ ˈkæʃmɪə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of cashmere

Kashmir

²

/ kæʃˈmɪə /

noun

1. a region of SW central Asia: from the 16th century ruled by the Moguls, Afghans, Sikhs, and British successively; since 1947 disputed between India, Pakistan, and China; 84 000 sq km (33 000 sq miles) in the northwest are held by Pakistan and in part known as Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir), part as the Northern Areas; an area of 42 735 sq km (16 496 sq miles) in the east (the Aksai Chin) is held by China; the remainder was in 1956 officially incorporated into India as the state of Jammu and Kashmir; traversed by the Himalaya and Karakoram mountain ranges and the Rivers Jhelum and Indus; a fruit-growing and cattle-grazing region, with a woollen industry. Capitals: (Jammu and Kashmir) Srinagar (summer), Jammu (winter); (Azad Kashmir) Muzaffarabad; (Northern Areas) Gilgit

Kashmir

1. A state of India, in its extreme north. When mainly Hindu India became independent of Great Britain in 1947, many of its predominantly Muslim areas split off as Pakistan. Kashmir, a mainly Muslim area, remained part of India, which led to persistent conflicts between India and Pakistan.

Example Sentences

Another on the team, top-order batter Anekha Devi, 20, from Jammu and Kashmir, was born partially blind.

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Late on Thursday night, their home in a village in Kashmir's Pulwama district was demolished by the security forces.

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A doctor from Indian-administered Kashmir, Umar was working as an assistant professor in the general medicine department at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, a Delhi suburb, the NIA said, adding that it had established the driver's identity forensically.

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The agency named Umar on Sunday after it said it had arrested a man - also a resident of Indian-administered Kashmir - in whose name the car used in the blast was allegedly registered.

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The explosion last week came just hours after Kashmir police said they had arrested seven men in recent weeks from different parts of India and seized 2,900kg of explosives from Faridabad - the same suburb of Delhi where Umar lived and worked.

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