Interlinkages between human security and patriarchal violence

Issues raised by the scholars related to human security and patriarchal violence, not only have important policy implications but normative ones also. Therefore, present paper investigates the interlinkages between human security and patriarchal violence with respect to women in Indian society. Cross-sectional descriptive research design is used in present study. Primary data were collected from randomly selected 197 women living in 04 villeges of Kashi Vidyapith bolck of Varanasi district self-constructed Interview schedule is used to collect. Study found a high level of patriarchal violence along with very low status of various dimensions of human security. Level of patriarchal violence and status of human security were found significantly associated and a significant difference was found between different social classes, socio-cultural norms, economically dependency, household income and occupation of respondents. It was found that Personal Security has highest interlinkages with patriarchal violence, followed by Community Security, Economic Security, Food Security and Health Security.