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University of Kashmir
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Intersecting Axes of Deprivation and Aspiration: An Empirical Dissection of Educational Attainment, Employment Structures, and Poverty Dynamics in the Kashmir Valley: Intersecting Axes of Deprivation and Aspiration: An Empirical Dissection of Educational Attainment, Employment Structures, and Poverty Dynamics in the Kashmir Valley Asif Bashir; Naseer Ahmad Bhat; Rafia Mushtaq
Multidiciplinary Output Research For Actual and International Issue (MORFAI) Vol. 5 No. 4 (2025): Multidiciplinary Output Research For Actual and International Issue
Publisher : RADJA PUBLIKA

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.54443/morfai.v5i4.3054

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This empirical investigation undertakes a granular socio-economic autopsy of the Kashmir Valley, dissecting the multifaceted interplay among educational attainment, employment stratification, and poverty incidence. Drawing upon stratified demographic data, the study interrogates the assumptions that formal education acts as a panacea against economic marginality. Although a discernible inverse correlation between educational level and poverty prevalence is established—most notably, with only one in twenty postgraduates living below the poverty line—the data simultaneously reveal an unsettling incongruity: elevated education does not axiomatically culminate in employment. A pronounced graduate unemployment rate (21.6%) underscores systemic disconnects between academic curricula and localized labor markets. The study illuminates acute gender-based disparities, where female unemployment (39.7%) significantly eclipses male rates, with rural women bearing the brunt of socio-economic exclusion. Informal employment patterns remain entrenched in rural terrains, perpetuating subsistence economies devoid of structural mobility. Urban-rural dichotomies in monthly income (INR 16,400 vs. INR 8,300) reveal infrastructural and opportunity asymmetries, while government employment surfaces as the singular bastion of economic stability and aid-independence. The discussion extrapolates these findings into a broader analytical frame, critiquing policy inertia, aid-dependency paradigms, and educational irrelevance. The study culminates in a set of praxis-oriented recommendations: localized micro-industrialization, curriculum recalibration, gender-responsive economic ecosystems, digital cooperatives, public sector decentralization, youth-focused resilience programs, and geo-spatial equity audits. These interventions collectively aspire to reconfigure the region’s socio-economic architecture from passive dependency toward sustainable empowerment.
Unwed and Unheard: Structural Constraints and Cultural Pressures Facing Economically Vulnerable Women in Kashmir, India Asif Bashir; Naseer Ahmad Bhat; Tasleema Akhter
Multidiciplinary Output Research For Actual and International Issue (MORFAI) Vol. 5 No. 3 (2025): Multidiciplinary Output Research For Actual and International Issue
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.54443/morfai.v5i3.3057

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This study critically interrogates the socio-cultural and economic determinants underpinning the phenomenon of late and non-marriage among women above the age of 40 in the Kashmir Valley. Drawing on primary data collected from 108 unmarried women engaged in low-income occupations such as homemaking, private tuition, and informal sector work, the research elucidates how entrenched cultural expectations particularly the prevalence of dowry demands and the social compulsion for extravagant wedding expenditures conspire with financial precarity to delay or entirely obstruct marriage prospects. The analysis employs both descriptive statistics and chi-square testing to establish significant correlations between occupational status and the reasons cited for remaining unmarried, revealing that women’s economic contributions often fail to mitigate the barriers imposed by patriarchal traditions and materialist social norms. Further, the study problematizes the socio-psychological implications of prolonged singleness, situating these women within a matrix of marginalization marked by emotional distress, familial burden, and diminished social visibility. Remedies proposed encompass structural reforms, legal enforcement against dowry, targeted marriage support schemes, vocational empowerment, and a reconceptualization of societal narratives around marriage and womanhood. The study concludes that without a multidimensional recalibration of both policy and cultural ethos, the marital exclusion of economically vulnerable women will persist, perpetuating cycles of gendered inequality and social alienation.
Co-Authors Naseer Ahmad Bhat Rafia Mushtaq Tasleema Akhter