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Leena Parmar is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. After schooling from St. John’s, Calcutta, she graduated from Sophia College, Ajmer. She did her M.A. from Rajasthan University, securing first position position in order of merit. Her doctoral thesis is on Military Sociology and was the first on the subject in the country. Dr. Leena Parmar has done research on various social aspects of the Indian Army, which includes Modernisation, Aspiration, Commitment, Morale, Relative Deprivation, Leisure Pattern, Role of Army in National Integration, Problems of Ex-Soldiers in the Country, AIDS Awareness, etc. For each of these aspects, she has tried to use the sociological perspective along with imperial first-hand data collected by her. Dr. Parmar has presented papers at several international seminars on Military Sociology. She was the first Indian to be selected by Germany to study the International Military System when she was invited to N.A.T.O. Her book, Society, Culture and Military System is a pioneering work in the field of Military Sociology. She has just completed her post-doctoral research on Kargil War Widows and is currently working on two projects pertaining to Military Sociology. One of the projects is on Peace Process in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) and the other work is on the Sociological Understanding of Indian Peacekeepers stationed abroad. Apart from being a keen researcher of military topics, she is also an army daughter and wife, which explains her insight into military matters.