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Armed Militias of South Asia by Christophe Jaffrelot, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Armed Militias of South Asia by Christophe Jaffrelot, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Armed Militias of South Asia by Christophe Jaffrelot, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Armed Militias of South Asia by Christophe Jaffrelot, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conflicts often involve armed paramilitary militias or insurgents ofone sort or other, and it is their ideology, sociology and strategies that the contributors to this book investigate. Whether based on ideological motives - such as the Maoists and Naxalites in Nepal and India - or invested with a fundamentalist religious mission - the Hindu nationalist Bajrang Dalin India, the Sunni SSP in Pakistan, or Islamist militias in Bangladesh - all these movements use violence to exercise social control, challenge the authority of the state and impose their own particular worldview. Although they seek also to undermine the state, depriving it of the monopoly on legitimate violence that it supposedly holds, governments are equally adept at exploiting them to make them serve their own ends. For the authorities, these movements can be useful tools for their pursuit of both moraland social order. However delegating power to such groups for short term political gains can be an extremely risky enterprise, as demonstrated by Indira Gadhi's patronage of the Sikh militant group that later assassinated her. Armed Militas of South Asia is the first comprehensive book of its sortand will be required reading for all those interested in the politics of the subcontinent and Myanmar. | Armed Militias of South Asia by Christophe Jaffrelot, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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