ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an ethnographic study of two locations in India – Jammu camps and Noida apartments –where a significant proportion of the displaced Kashmiri persons are resettled. The experience of displacement of Kashmiri Hindus has proven that individuals use their acquired capital –social, economic, and material –to resettle in new areas. The resettlement of displaced Kashmiri people in urban centres has led to certain changes in the traditional gender equations and roles. The economic capital possessed by migrants in the form of movable property, bank deposits, or cash was utilised by the urban, educated, professional middle-class Kashmiri Pandit community displaced from Srinagar city. The escalation of political turmoil in the Kashmir Valley led to the displacement of minority communities, mainly the Kashmiri Hindus, from Kashmir. The chapter looks into the redefinition of men's and women's roles and responsibilities as members of community and society. Women experience discrimination during displacement from homeland and consequent resettlement in the new territories.
