Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists

by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot

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 of one sort or other, and it is their ideology, sociology and strategies that the contributors to this book investigate. Whether based on ideological motives--such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326916
• ISBN13: 9780199326914
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"