cashmere or kashmir

I was reading some BBC news about the situation in Kashmir and decided that I significantly lack knowledge of that region. So I've been reading up on the history.

After India received independence form Britain in 1947, the ruler of Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh, had to decide whether to join with Pakistan or India.  He could not decide and wanted to be sovereign.  He signed an agreement with Pakistan, but not India, that services between countries like trade and travel would not be stopped.  Tribesmen from Northwest Pakistan started attacking and raiding people in Kashmir.  In October of 1947 they invaded again and Maharaja Hari Singh called for help from India.  India said that it would be safer if Kashmir were to temporarily become part of India.  Pakistan was obviously angry and claimed that Maharaja Hari Singh was not in charge of Kashmir anymore because he had fled the country.

            This decision to accede to India sparked the following decades of violence.  There has also been a growing movement in Kashmir, since 1989, against Indian rule.  There is fear around the world that the fight over Kashmir could spark a nuclear war, as both Pakistan and India claim to have nuclear weapons.