Autor: B. A. Dabla

B. A. Dabla is presently the Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Earlier he was a faculty at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has also served the Jammu and Kashmir Government as Assistant Director and Press Officer to Chief Minister. Prof. Dabla has to his credit 19 books, 52 research papers, 106 articles, 16 surveys/study reports, and 17 research projects. He is also the editor of two journals, namely, Journal of Society in Kashmir and Kasheer.His areas of interest are Social Change and Development; Women, Children and Society; Sociology of Islam, Muslims and Minorities; Migration and Population Changes; Kashmir Sociology; and Conflict Situation. He was the member of NCF group of NCERT, and ICSSR, New Delhi. The author has been awarded recently prestegious Mawlana Azad National Fellowship by the I.C.S.S.R., New Delhi.