FOOTPRINTS OF WOMEN IN CONFLICT (Narrating Women‘s Perpetually Altering Roles in Kashmir)

Dhaar Mehak Majeed; Zahid Gulzar

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

FOOTPRINTS OF WOMEN IN CONFLICT (Narrating Women‘s Perpetually Altering Roles in Kashmir)

Dhaar Mehak Majeed, Zahid Gulzar

Abstract :

The women whom we today see as the symbol of resistance and perseverance do not stand over the milestone of such nomenclatures out of nowhere. They have their own stories about the journeys they have made from time to time and continuously. This paper traces the path women living in this part of the world have walked all throughout up until now. The starkest fact about the timing of this paper is the odd timing of its composition. This paper is an endeavour of writing at a time when the conflict is perpetual, still existent, afresh and changing forms and manifestations to attain the goal of accomplishment. Women in Kashmir have seen a lot of hardship all throughout and are getting to face and ave the same with the difference of changing the face of adversity with each changing day. The paper begins the outlining of footprints from the Dogra Rule and traversing through the days of realization of the Naya Kashmir Manifesto. The paper goes on to see how the 1970s were different from 1950s and 60s. The paper goes on to study the radical changes and happenings of the 1980s and all throughout we see the position and condition of women in the changing forms of political conflict. The paper studies the impact of state–sponsored feminism on the young women of the land and how it all came down in the midst of the peak of its success. The paper concludes by acknowledging the strong part whether documented or undocumented women have been playing in the freedom movement of Kashmir.