By Jugdep S. Chima
This e-book presents a micro-historical research of the emergence and modern dynamics of modern ethnic sub-nationalist insurgencies in South Asia. utilizing comparative case reports, it discusses the motives of every insurgency, analyses the trajectory and dynamics of every together with makes an attempt at solution, and highlights the broader theories of ethno-nationalist insurgency and mobilization.
Bringing jointly a global staff of members, the publication covers insurgencies in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. It questions why ethnic sub-nationalist insurgencies happened at specific time cut-off dates and never at others, and explores the comparative trajectories of those hobbies. The ebook is going directly to parent reappearing styles of clash escalation/de-escalation during the approach to comparative process-tracing. It argues that whereas identification is an important issue for insurgency, it isn't a adequate one. as a substitute, ethnic mobilization and insurgency basically emerge whilst it truly is activated by means of rigidity rising from political festival among ethnic and principal kingdom elites. those elite-led dynamics, while mixed with beneficial socio-economic and political stipulations, make the ethnic lots primed to simply accept the usually symbolically-rich appeals from their leaders to mobilize opposed to the valuable kingdom.
Providing a major learn on ethno-nationalist insurgencies in South Asia, the booklet might be of curiosity to these operating within the fields of South Asian Politics, defense reviews and Ethnic Conflict.
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However, it is known that hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri 22 D. Sharma civilians participated in protest marches and anti-India demonstrations in the immediate aftermath of the allegedly fraudulent elections of 1987. Furthermore, the general resentment of the central government led to the popular boycott of the 1989 national elections in Kashmir, leading to a less than 5 per cent turnout (Evans 1999). Although it is not contested that Pakistan provided material support to sustain the 1989 revolt by arming, training, and harbouring the insurgents, there is little empirical evidence to suggest that Pakistan stage-managed the initial uprising in Jammu and Kashmir against India (Widmalm 1997; Wirsing 1998, p.
290,000), which is almost equally Buddhist and Muslim, and the Jammu region to the south (with a population of approx. 4 million), which is approximately two-thirds Hindu and one-third Muslim (Directorate of Census Operations 2011). The state of Jammu and Kashmir (henceforth Kashmir) emerged when the erstwhile Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu was divided between India and Pakistan following the 1947–48 war between the two countries. However, the issue of the future of Kashmir was far from resolved.