Ethnic subnationalist insurgencies in South Asia : identities, interests and challenges to state authority / [edited by] Jugdep S. Chima
- Bib ID:
- 6817459
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015
- xvii, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781138839922
- 1138839922
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781315733135
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 95.
- Summary:
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"This book provides a micro-historical analysis of the emergence and contemporary dynamics of recent ethnic sub-nationalist insurgencies in South Asia. Using comparative case studies, it discusses the causes of each insurgency, analyses the trajectory and dynamics of each, including attempts at resolution, and highlights the wider theories of ethno-nationalist insurgency. Bringing together an international group of contributors, the book covers insurgencies in Kashmir, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It questions why ethnic sub-nationalist insurgencies occurred at particular points in time and not at others, and explores the comparative trajectories of these movements. The book goes on to discern reappearing patterns of conflict escalation/de-escalation through the method of comparative process-tracing. It discusses that while identity is a necessary factor for insurgency, it is not a sufficient one. Instead, ethnic mobilization and insurgency only emerge when it is activated by tension emerging from political competition between ethnic and central state elites. These political dynamics, when combined with favourable socio-economic conditions, make the ethnic masses primed to accept the often symbolically-rich appeals from their leaders to mobilize against the central state. Providing an important study on ethno-nationalist insurgencies in South Asia, the book will be of interest to those working in the fields of South Asian Politics, Security Studies and Ethnic Conflict"--
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Chima, Jugdep S, editor
- Copyright:
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