kashmir was a part of the mughal province kabul subah.
kashmir was a part of which mughal province?
kabul subah
kashmir did not witness direct mughal rule till the reign of mughal badshah (emperor) akbar the great, who visited the valley himself in 1589 ce. akbar conquered kashmir by deceit, and later added it in 1586 to his afghan province kabul subah, but shah jahan carved it out as a separate subah (imperial top-level province), with seat at srinagar. during successive mughal emperors many celebrated gardens, mosques and palaces were constructed. religious intolerance and discriminatory taxation reappeared when mughal emperor aurangzeb ascended to the throne in 1658 ce. after his death, the influence of the mughal empire declined.
history of kashmir
the mughals, under aurangzeb, invaded vijayanagara region and, having conquered the maratha-bijapur province of carnatic-bijapur-balaghat (of which bangalore was a part), made it a part of the mughal province of sira. the payment for bangalore was consequently made to qasim khan, the mughal "faujdar diwan" of sira and, through him, devaraja wodeyar ii "assiduously cultivated an alliance" with aurangzeb. he also soon turned his attention to the regions to his south which were less the objects of moghul interest. the regions around baramahal and salem below the eastern ghats were now annexed by mysore, and in 1694, were extended by the addition of regions to the west up to the baba budan mountains. two years later, devaraja wodeyar ii attacked the lands of the naiks of madura and laid a siege of trichinopoly. soon, however, qasim khan, his mughal liaison, died. with the intention of either renewing his mughal connexions or seeking mughal recognition of his southern conquests, devaraja wodeyar ii sent an embassy to aurangzeb, at ahmadnagar. in response, in 1700, the mughal emperor sent the mysore maharaja a signet ring seal bearing the title ""jug deo raj"" (literally, "lord and king of the world"), and permission to sit on an ivory throne, and also a sword from aurangzeb's personal regalia, a firangi, with gold etching on the hilt, to be used as a sword of the state by the mysore maharajas, while seated on the ivory throne. devaraja wodeyar ii, at this time, also reorganised his administration into eighteen departments, which, even today, is famous as the 'athaara kacheri' (eighteen departments), in "imitation of what the envoys had seen at the mughal court." when the maharaja died on 16 november 1704, his dominions extended from midagesi in the north to palni and anaimalai in the south, and from kodagu and balam in the west to baramahals in the east.
chikka devaraja