Identifying Conflict driven Displaced Communities: A Study of Kashmir Region

T. Maqbool¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.5 , Issue.12 , pp.52-55, Dec-2019

Online published on Dec 31, 2019

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Abstract :
Through the twentieth century, there has been a significant growth in the frequency of armed conflicts across the globe and India is no exception to it. These conflicts have not only led to widespread death but extensive displacement, fear, and economic devastation. The most affected of these conflicts are those who get dislocated from their native places under unbearable violent conditions. In the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, the armed struggle of 1989 forced most of the Pandit families to leave the Valley for the safety of their lives. But the displacement was not confined to the Pandit community alone, there were other communities too who got displaced due to the conflict in the region. In this regard, the paper aims to examine the different communities displaced due to the armed conflict in Kashmir valley and the impact on their lives. The paper is based on secondary sources of data and the results of the paper describe that not only Pandits have got displaced in Jammu and Kashmir, but there are other communities in the state which got affected by the conflict and remained out of the discussion at local, national and international levels. The paper aims to explore those unvoiced communities.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Partition, Conflict, Displacement, Communities, Kashmir, exodus

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