Language use patterns and ethnolinguistic vitality of the Shina speaking Gurezi immigrants

Ahmed, Musavir

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“…During this period there has been no report of any discord or dispute between this numerically very small group and the dominant host community of Kashmiris. In a community where members of other ethnic groups like Dards of Gurez try to hide their ethnic identity in social domains dominated by ethnic Kashmiris (Ahmed 2014), the Burushos of Srinagar feel proud in expressing their ethnicities, at least in their immediate neighbourhood.The results point to the single most factor of "self-identification" by members with the immediate ancestors or forerunners of the group who have been princes or chieftains. This feeling of belonging to the extended family of princes or chieftains has inculcated a sense of pride among the members.…”

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Ethnicity, Identity and Group Vitality: A Study of Burushos of Srinagar

Ahmed

2016

J Ethn Cult Stud

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The study reports the findings of a survey undertaken to comprehend the factors that have enabled a group of around 350 Burushos to maintain their ethnic identity including their language after 125 years of their immigration to Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir State of India. The group has been able to resist the assimilatory forces and has maintained itself as a distinct entity vis-a-vis the dominant Kashmiri host society. The study has drawn upon the empirical tool of ethnolinguistic vitality as a reflection of the group’s sustainability as a collective entity in terms of their ethnic as well as linguistic identity. The study also reveals the attitude of native Kashmiris towards the group as perceived by group members. This perceived attitude of the group members has been explained in terms of its bearing on the vitality and identity of the group. The study is based on 50 semi-structured questionnaires and four unstructured interviews. The questionnaire has been partly developed on the basis of six factors identified by UNESCO (2003) in the evaluation of ethnolinguistic vitality. The paper concludes that an ethnically small immigrant group can survive the assimilatory forces and maintain their ethnic identity even if the ethnolinguistic vitality of the group is quite low on most of the measurable factors.

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Ethnicity, Identity and Group Vitality: A Study of Burushos of Srinagar

Ahmed

2016

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Impact of state indifference on ethnolinguistic vitality

Ahmed

2023

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This paper reports on ethnolinguistic vitality and the impact of state indifference on it among Baltis of Kargil in Ladakh division of former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state in India. The Baltis of Kargil have registered a negative population growth over last three consecutive decades in official records even when the population of district Kargil and former J&K state has been increasing substantially during the period. From 48,498 individuals in 1981, the group has been reduced to 13,774 individuals in 2011. Surprisingly the Purigpa, another ethnic group in Kargil closely related to the Baltis, have registered a substantial decadal growth rate of 114% from 2001 to 2011. Using the cultural autonomy model of ethnolinguistic vitality, the study found the group to be moderately strong in collective group identity and strong in social proximity, however a weak institutional control and a very weak ideological legitimacy reflected in a huge decrease in population of the group in official records is indicative of state indifference, which has weakened the vitality of the group.

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Language use patterns and ethnolinguistic vitality of the Shina speaking Gurezi immigrants

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Ethnicity, Identity and Group Vitality: A Study of Burushos of Srinagar

Ethnicity, Identity and Group Vitality: A Study of Burushos of Srinagar

Impact of state indifference on ethnolinguistic vitality

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