ABSTRACT

Education is looked upon as a means of raising the social status of an individual in various ways. The paper attempts to show the nature of Dogra state and also exposed enquires into the stereotype of Muslim apathy to modern education due to their religious conservatism. It shows relationship between the Dogra State, Muslims, and educational development in Kashmir. It examines the State’s responsibility of educating the Kashmiri Muslims. It shows that relative deprivation of Muslims in different opportunities led them to poverty and illiteracy among them. The paper finds that Muslims did not see education as necessarily translating into formal employment. The first part of the paper throws ample light on the attitude of Dogra state towards the development of education in Kashmir. Second part examines the attitude of Muslims to modern education. It examines the indifferent role of state vis-à-vis education of Muslims. The paper concludes with the dismal educational condition of Jammu and Kashmir in general and Muslims in particular, which can be said is the legacy it inherited from the Dogra state.