Editing WtHQM:World History (section)

====Historical Divergences====

Toward the end of the Mughal-Afghan conflicts in Kashmir in the 1750s CE, a loose coalition of Dardic and Ladakh tribesmen converted to Ismaili Islam by the so-called "Hidden Da'i" drove back the Afghan Durrani troops and killed Abdul Khan Isk Aquasi, inaugurating nearly a century of rule by the al-Nizari dynasty. Dardic rule was tolerant of Buddhism and Hinduism, and the Kashmir prospered. Nonetheless, the Sikh invasion in 1819 CE did succeed, and the Sikh Maharajas remained provincial rulers under the British Empire.

In the real world, Kashmiri independence ended in 1947 when the Maharaja requested Indian aid in repelling a Pakistani invasion and insurgency. In the game world, this occasioned a rebellion by the Ismaili Dards and the Ismaili and Buddhist Ladakhs, ending in the expulsion of both Pakistani and Indian troops and the reinstitution by plebiscite of an Ismaili raj over the former territories of the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu.

Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, died during the Siege of Srinagar in 2005, and was succeeded by his eldest son Prince Rahim.