Indian National Security and Counter-Insurgency: The use of force vs non-violent response

by Namrata Goswami

This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state's response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947.

In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommodation of ethnic and minority aspirations and, overtime, the state has established a tradition of negotiation with armed ethnic groups in order to bolster its legitimacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415705509
• ISBN13: 9780415705509
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"