Social Impact of Militancy in Kashmir

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The Kashmiri society experienced most difficult challenge in modern history due to two-decade long armed conflict between Kashmiri militants and Indian security forces. In actually, it proved devastating for the survival of this tiny society in the global map. In brought catastrophic impact in totality on the entire Kashmiri society especially in the fields related to large scale economic destruction and collapse widespread social disorder and social disorganization educational backwardness, mass psychological depression mental and physical health deterioration, mass humiliation and people’s helplessness imposed brutalization and dehumanization, forceful cultural aggression political suppression and oppression, demographic manipulation social crisis and social anarchy and social pathology characterized by deviance crime delinquency drug addiction suicides perpetual tension and social apathy. Consequently, a generation was lost in this social inferno.

This papers in this book were written in the preceding social context during the last four years. All these presentations portray this greatest social and human tragedy which has consumed about 1,00,000 human beings and gave birth to 32,000 widows, 98,000 orphans, 6,00,000 disabled, 10,000 disappeared and 1000s injured men and molested-raped women.

This book stands for a sociological and scientific presentation of facts and figures from official as well as unofficial primary and authentic sources about short-term and long-term social implications of militancy and militarization in Kashmir. It reveals the existing facts and realities about multi-dimensional implications of conflict situation over a period of last 20 years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bashir Ahmad Dabla

Dr. Bashir A. Dabla is an eminent sociologist of Kashmir. After doing Masters in Sociology in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he carried out M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes of research in the same university. At present, he is Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar. In fact, he had established this department in 1989. He has worked as Assistant Director, Social Welfare Department and Press Officer to Chief Minister, J&K Govt. and Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Dr. Dabla has published 3 books, 30 research papers and about 50 newspaper-magazine articles on his areas of research. The topics of his books are "Polity, Society and Change", "Working Women in Kashmir" and "Islam and Muslims". He has carried out successrully several research projects sponsored by international and national agencies/organizations, especially UNICEF, Save the Children Fund (UK) and Ministry of Planning, Government of India, New Delhi. In the past three years, he has completed successfully SCF's research project on 'Impact of Conflict Situation on Women and Children in Kashmir' and MOP's project on 'Multi-Dimensional Problems of Women in the Kashmir Valley'. Moreover, he has organized several national and regional seminars, conferences and workshops on various sociological themes. Dr. Dabla's areas of specialization are (a) Social Change and Development, (b) Women Children and Society, (c) Sociology of Minorities/Islam/Muslims and (d) The Kashmir Sociology.

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Title
Social Impact of Militancy in Kashmir
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788121210997
Length
295p., Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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