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RESPONDING TO TERRORISM IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 3,373Even though South Asia has had a long and diverse experience of dealing with terrorism, post 9/11 a sense of urgency and seriousness has been reinforced with regard to it at the global level. The focus in this timely volume is on the strategies evolved by the South Asian states in responding to the challenge of terrorism. It is inevitable, however, that while looking at the strategies, essential characteristics of terrorism are also understood and explained as the nature of terrorism faced in each of the South Asian countries has its own specific aspects. The study is divided into two sections. In the first section states have responded to terrorism has been studied carefully. In the second section, some of the comparative aspects of the regional perspective, such as the role of civil societies, consequences of strategies pursued, role of the third parties, and political economy of terrorism and responding strategies have been taken up for discussion and analysis. There is also a data paper on South Asian terrorism included at the end. Contributors include Ajay Sahni, Samina Ahmed, Abdul Kalam, Ayesha Siddiqa, Deepak Thapa among many others.
ISBN: 8173046719
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UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 2,773Terrorism is now an over-defined concept with the state, intellectuals, dissenters, and anti-state activists constantly batting out its meaning. While analyzing terrorism the authors of this volume have tried to highlight the following contentions. First, both state and non-state actors are culpable when it comes to reproducing terrorism, although as a policy the state was the first to institutionalize it. Second, the colonial state was notorious when it came to reproducing terrorism, not merely for channelizing its coercive machineries but for institutionalizing terrorism as a matter of state policy. Third, non-state terrorism during the colonial era remained qualitatively different from the post-colonial era mainly for the practice of keeping out civil society from influencing state policy. Fourth, state’s policy of counter-terrorism proved more counter-productive in tackling non-state terrorism. Fifth, modern weapons technology has virtually reconceptualized terrorism, not only nationally but also internationally. Sixth, while the state resorted to terrorism mainly for containing the power of dissenting subalterns, the latter also through acts of terrorism found convenient to project its grievances against the state. Seventh, misgovernance of the state, marginality of communities, and national deprivation, all contribute directly to the reproduction of non-state terrorism. Finally, globalization has provided fresh impetus to terrorism in terms of international networks and the supply of materials.
ISBN: 817304659X
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SMALL ARMS AND THE SECURITY DEBATE IN SOUTH ASIA
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ISBN: 817046255
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DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 3,063In reaction to British imperialism during the 19th and 20th centuries, Indian Muslims and Hindus imagined and invented their separate and distinct religious communities and communal nationalisms. These were institutionalized in the subcontinent’s political systems by the British government in collaboration with Indian politicians. Stem argues that this production of communalism has been crucial in structuring the composition and organization of South Asia’s politically dominant classes, and that they, in turn, have been crucial in determining parliamentary democracy’s growth or atrophy on the subcontinent.
ISBN: 0275970418
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RELIGION AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 3,063One of the most surprising developments of the last 20 years has been the proliferation of aggressive political movements linked to religion. This timely collection of studies by internationally known scholars offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between religion and politics in predominantly Hindu India, Islamic Pakistan, and Buddhist Sri Lanka. The authors challenge traditional stereotypes and interpretations of South Asian religion and political conflict and give close attention to the impact of socio-economic conditions in defining religious culture and political action.
ISBN: 031327309X
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DEMOCRACY AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 995In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in post-colonial South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a common British colonial legacy led to apparently contrast-ing patterns of political development — democracy in India and military authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The analysis shows how, despite differences in form, central political authority in each state came to zonfront broadly comparable threats from regional and linguistic dis-sidence, religious and sectarian strife, as well as class and caste conflicts. By comparing and contrasting state structures and political processes, the author evaluates and redefines democracy, citizenship, sovereignty and the nation-state, arguing for a more decentralized governmental structure better able to arbitrate between ethnic and regional movements. This original and provocative study will challenge students and scholars in the field to rethink traditional concepts of democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia.
ISBN: 9789699988875
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PERCEPTION, POLITICS AND SECURITY IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 30,852This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990 and places the crisis in the context of concurrent international events.
ISBN: 041530797X
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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 150ISBN: Y3897 – Hardback
Publisher: PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHERS
ISBN: Y2810
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
