Ganderbal

Ganderbal lies where the Sind River descends from the mountains into the Kashmir Valley and joins the Jhelum. The valley provides a route towards the high country of Sonamarg and the sacred cave of Amarnath. The wider region passed from the Shah Mir and Chak dynasties to the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1586. Afghan Durrani rulers later governed Kashmir before the Sikh conquest of the valley in the early nineteenth century.