Unconventional Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present

Contents: Introduction; Part I Insurgencies, Counter-Insurgencies and Terrorism: Paramilitary forces in India, K.P. Misra; Innovations in counterinsurgency: the Indian Army's Rashtriya Rifles, Rajesh Rajagopalan; India's counter-insurgency experience: the 'trust and nurture' strategy, Namrata Goswami; Counterinsurgency in Pakistan: learning from India, Moeed Yusef and Anit Mukherjee; The fire within: Naxalite insurgency violence in India, Pratul Ahuja and Rajat Ganguly; Explaining the Kashmir insurgency: political mobilization and institutional decay, Sumit Ganguly; India, Pakistan and Kashmir: antinomies of nationalism, Ashutosh Varshney; The insurgency environment in Northeast India, Lawrence E. Cline; Confronting constructionism: ending India's Naga war, Sanjib Baruah; Bhutan's military action against Indian insurgents, Arijit Mazumdar; Spatial-horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates; Prabhakaran as leader of the LTTE, S.P. Sinha; Cogs in the wheel? Women in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Miranda Alison; Factors leading to insurgency in Balochistan, Alok Bansal. Part II Unconventional Warfare and Religion: The Indian armed forces' Sikh and non-Sikh officers' opinion of Operation Blue Star, Apurba Kundu; Gandhi and Bin Laden: religious conflict at the polar extremes, James L. Rowell; Just and unjust war in Hindu philosophy, Kaushik Roy; Tamil Tiger 'martyrs': regenerating divine potency?, Michael Roberts; Is the Sri Lankan War a Buddhist fundamentalism?, Richard Gombrich; Name index.

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• Forças irregulares ou de guerrilha e estado de guerra
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