• Ruchika Raina

The disputed LoC in Jammu and Kashmir intricate with region’s geography, culture and identity, apart from state’s display of powers through guns, shells, and military instalments. This paper explores the people identities and challenges they are facing to maintain it. The narrative ethnography focuses on the influence of political initiatives, and challenges of the Poonch LoC villages from the people-centric approach. The narratives on social, military and political challenges to border identity provides further understanding of how state control the identities through strategic and conflict viewpoint, hence adding the identity-confusion in the region.

Line of Control, borderlands, Jammu and Kashmir, identity, conflict

"Ethnic Identity: A case study of LoC, Poonch", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no.k57-k64, May 2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405A08.pdf

"Ethnic Identity: A case study of LoC, Poonch", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no. ppk57-k64, May 2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405A08.pdf