Citation

Hassan A. Stud. Change. Soc. 2012; 1(5): 121-134.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, University of Kashmir, J and K, India, 190006, E-mail: asima_hassan@yahoo.co.in

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, The authors or their institutions, Publisher V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

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Abstract

The impact of Twenty-years-old conflict on Kashmiri society has proved deeper, wider and has engulfed the totality of social dynamics. In actuality, every sector and every section of the Kashmiri society suffer in totality at the individual as well as group level. Education was the major causality as a result of the conflict .The major cause leading to the decreasing working days were incidents of violence and crumbling of the entire system of governance. This paper aims to focus on the impact of the conflict situation on education of youth in Kashmir. The present study has been limited to youth enrolled in various degree colleges covering the faculties of general science, social science, Humanities, Business/commerce and computer science. The respondents were selected from the colleges of six districts of Kashmir province of Jammu and Kashmir.