Every image on this site, and its licence

This site publishes no photograph it does not have the right to publish. Each image below is public domain or Creative Commons, self-hosted, and credited beside it wherever it appears.

The rule, and why it is strict

A site that asks readers to check its figures cannot be casual about whose photographs it uses. So the rule here is simple: public domain or Creative Commons, self-hosted, credited in the same component as the image. Attribution is generated from a single registry, which is also what generates this page — so a credit cannot drift out of sync with the image it belongs to, and an unregistered image cannot be published at all.

Two further rules, both editorial rather than legal:

No photograph of a dead or injured person. Not one image on this site shows a body, a wound, or an identifiable person in distress. The record does that work in numbers and in documents. Where a page needs to show what was lost, it shows a name — as on the Bijbehara memorial board — or a grave, or an empty valley.
An illustrative image is never presented as evidence. Photographs marked Primary document are the thing itself: the Instrument of Accession, the United Nations’ own ceasefire map, the memorial listing the dead of Bijbehara. Everything else is a picture of a place, and its caption says so.

Material this project holds but does not publish: several wire-agency photographs, one carrying the embedded credit AFP PHOTO / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA and the rights line AFP or licensors; a photograph with no provenance of any kind; and two unlicensed illustrations, one still bearing a stock-library watermark. Rights we cannot establish are rights we do not have. The 2019 advertisement is reconstructed for the same reason.

All 23 images on this site, with author and licence
Image	Author	Licence	Source
abdullah-1931 A 1931 black and white photograph of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah seated with other leaders of the 1931 agitation against Do…	Unknown photographer, 1931	CC BY-SA 3.0	source
accession-1947 The first page of the typed Instrument of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India, headed 'Instrument of Accession of Ja…	Government of India / Maharaja Hari Singh	Public domain	source
apple-orchard A photograph of a woman in a yellow shalwar kameez tending fruit in an apple orchard in Kashmir.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
baglihar-dam A wide photograph of the Baglihar hydroelectric dam on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir, set in a steep brown gorge…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY 3.0	source
bijbehara-martyrs A painted memorial board at the Mazar-e-Shuhada martyrs' graveyard in Bijbehara, listing in columns the names, parentage…	TamirNazir	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
dal-houseboats A photograph of wooden houseboats moored along the shore of Dal Lake in Srinagar, with poplar trees and hills behind.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
dal-satellite A false-colour satellite image of Dal Lake and Srinagar, in which vegetation appears in blues and purples and the built-…	NASA / JPL-Caltech	Public domain	source
gulmarg A photograph of Gulmarg in Kashmir: pitched-roof buildings on a snow-covered meadow with pine-forested mountains behind.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
kashmir-1890 An 1890 photograph of Srinagar showing a mosque with a tiered spire on the bank of the river Jhelum, with boats moored a…	Unknown photographer, c. 1890	Public domain	source
kashmir-map-art-by-muzzammil-eddie-sajjad An original composite artwork in the shape of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Inside the outline the ter…	Muzzammil Eddie Sajjad	© 2026 · All rights reserved	Original work — not licensed for reuse
loc-fence A close-up photograph of a barbed-wire strand on the fencing along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, with …	Nitish Sharma	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
loc-map A schematic diagram of the Line of Control showing villages and border posts on the Pakistani side and the Indian side, …	DTM	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
london-protest A photograph of a crowd of protesters in central London holding placards and flags, demanding an end to human rights vio…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
maharaja-bourne A 19th-century photograph by Samuel Bourne of the Maharaja of Kashmir seated with his retinue, arranged in an oval frame…	Samuel Bourne	Public domain	source
martyrs-of-kashmir A photograph of a single white marble gravestone, inscribed in Urdu, in a martyrs' graveyard in Kashmir.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY 2.0	source
pahalgam-valley A wide photograph of the Pahalgam valley in Kashmir: green meadows and forested slopes rising to bare mountains under cl…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 3.0	source
pashmina-weaver A photograph of a Kashmiri weaver working at a large wooden handloom in a workshop in Srinagar, lit by a window.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
saffron-pampore A photograph of purple saffron crocuses in flower across a field at Pampore in Kashmir.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source
tribesmen-1947 A 1947 black and white photograph of armed tribesmen standing on and around a truck during the first Kashmir war.…	Unknown photographer, 1947	Public domain	source
un-map-karachi-1949 A United Nations map of the state of Jammu and Kashmir showing the cease-fire line agreed under the Karachi Agreement, r…	United Nations — Dag Hammarskjöld Library	Public domain	source
un-view-map A map of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir drawn to the United Nations convention for disputed territory, s…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 3.0	source
valley-satellite A satellite image of the Kashmir Valley, showing the valley floor enclosed by snow-covered mountain ranges, with Wular L…	NASA / MODIS, 17 November 2016	Public domain	source
wular-lake A photograph of Wular Lake covered in lotus pads and flowers, with mountains on the far shore.…	Wikimedia contributors	CC BY-SA 4.0	source

Public domain items carry no conditions. CC BY requires attribution; CC BY-SA additionally requires that adaptations be shared under the same licence. Each image remains under its own licence — the site’s own text terms do not extend to them. If you are the rights holder of anything here and the attribution is wrong, or you want it removed, tell us and it will be corrected or taken down.