Abstract: India is a geographical challenge emerging out of a topographical giant. At the same time, India is said to be living in its rural areas. Drawing from assertion first with the knowledge of the fact that India is a democracy where union sprawls into parts viz. states we become well aware of the challenge to keep the whole citizenry happy and content with the existing order of government and affairs. This from time to time has led to various types of political and civil conflicts sprouting from various places throughout the Indian Sub-Continent. Once the conflict situation emerges the place is caught in a secondary spill of issues and challenges. The economic activity becomes the first and immediate casualty and the negative impact on the same spells to multiple lags. This makes the lives of people in the area different. First, the peace is eliminated from and then economic bounty seems to dry up. The present chapter studies the particular case of the Kashmir region. The un-addressed issues of the people have been a pending and unresolved affair since the late 1980s and in this wake, the conflict in Kashmir has been changing forms and varying on intensities from time to time. Apart from robbing the people in the region from peace and youth population, the conflict situation has stagnated the economic growth of the region. The paper studies the impact conflict has had on the rural development in general and rural industrialization in particular. The study finds out that the rural people have found some coping strategies and alternative ways of supporting the income thus keeping a thin strand of basic subsistence income alive on the one hand. On the other hand, the interest and faith in business have been constantly diminishing and the rural young people tend to study in a manner that they find an alternative job-based employment elsewhere.
Keywords: Conflict, Production, Hysteresis, Development.
Title: Rural Industry & its Coping Strategies in the Era of Conflict (An Analysis of Rural Industrialization in Kashmir)
Author: Dhāār Mehak Majeed, Saeed Owais Mushtaq, Tariq Ahad Nengroo
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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