The impact of Karakorum International University on the socio economic life of Danyore District Gilgit

Abstract

The transformation of societies into modernization is just after enlightenment. It is education which transform whole world into a global village. Initially every society was once traditional, with the passage of time people started to think beyond everything, and developed education system which changed the life of native world. Education has deep connection with anthropological studies, so the aim of study was to find the changes brought by education in primitive societies of Gilgit Baltistan. To explore the perception of educated and primitive people about education that either it is important or threat to culture. Anthropological research methods of participant observation, interviewing and a thematic analysis of the ethnographic data were employed. The finding of study reveal that the education has no threat to culture neither it destroys the values. Education is much important to make life easy; it can protect all cultural traits and can preserve the culture in a systematic way. Study also explored that the people of Gilgit Baltistan have much better status as compared to the traditional and uneducated society, but still there are few people who thinks that the education brought vulgarity to our society, Initially the local population was much poor they were unable to educate their children, due to which un employment was on its peak, after establishment of Karakorum university people became socially and politically strong, they use education as solid weapon in modern world, just because of this university which is educating mostly population of Gilgit Baltistan. Higher education also works as economic engine, where students are getting good jobs, foreign scholarships and they are enough competitive with marketplace. Through education, societies can easily develop themselves and can preserve their culture.