Flag Caption: | Alam flag of the Mughal Empire |
Capital: | Srinagar |
Legislature: | Mughal Darbar |
Area Label: | 1648 |
Status: | |
Year End: | 1752 |
Life Span: | 1586 - 1752 |
Year Start: | 1586 |
Image Map Caption: | Kashmir Sarkar of Kabul Subah depicted in map of Mughal India by Robert Wilkinson (1805) |
Title Leader: | Faujdar/Subahdar |
Year Leader1: | 1586 - 1588 |
Leader1: | Qasim Khan |
Year Leader2: | 1611 - 1616 |
Leader2: | Ahmed Beg Khan |
Year Leader3: | 1638 - 1646 1652 - 1657 |
Leader3: | Ali Mardan Khan |
Year Leader4: | 1671 - 1675 |
Leader4: | Iftikhar Khan |
Year Leader5: | 1721 - 1723 |
Leader5: | Abd al-Samad Khan |
Year Leader6: | 1751 - 1752 |
Leader6: | Quli Khan |
Event Start: | Battle of Hastivanj |
Date Start: | 10 October |
Event End: | Annexed by Durrani Empire |
Stat Area1: | 22,000 |
Stat Year1: | 1638 |
P1: | Kashmir Sultanate |
Flag P1: | Blood Flag.svg |
S1: | Durrani Empire |
Flag S1: | Flag of Herat until 1842.svg |
Era: | Early modern period |
The Sarkar of Kashmir (Persian:), later the Subah of Kashmir (Persian:), was a province of the Mughal Empire encompassing the Kashmir region, now divided between Pakistan (Muzaffarabad division) and India (Kashmir division). It was separated from the Kabul Subah and was made into an imperial province under administrative reforms carried out by emperor Shah Jahan in 1648. The province ceased to exist when Durrani forces, under Ahmed Shah Abdali, entered Kashmir in 1752 and captured Quli Khan, the last Mughal Subahdar.
The Kashmir Subah was bordered on the north by the Maqpon Kingdom of Baltistan, to the east by the Namgyal Kingdom of Ladakh, to the west by the Kabul Subah, the south by Lahore Subah, and to the south east by the semi autonomous hill states of Jammu.[1]