"How do rebels give up arms and return to the same political processes that they had once sought to overthrow? The question of weaning rebels away from extremist groups is highly significant in the context of counterinsurgency as well as pacification of insurgencies. Existing ex…
"How do rebels give up arms and return to the same political processes that they had once sought to overthrow? The question of weaning rebels away from extremist groups is highly significant in the context of counterinsurgency as well as pacification of insurgencies. Existing ex…
In her powerful, poignant book-one of the best non-fiction works from India in recent years- Anubha Bhonsle examines the tangled and tragic history of Manipur, and of much of India's North East. Through the story of Irom Sharmila-on a protest fast since 2000-and many others who …
"This book explores women's activities in militant insurgencies and seeks to understand what women 'do' in wars and how that challenges or endorses gender norms, as the case might be. In mainstream IR, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are ess…
"With the end of World War 2, and decolonization since 1950s, civil war and insurgencies have replaced inter-state wars as the main form of conflict. However, a fundamental question remains unanswered by theorists of civil war-do historical institutions play a role in creating c…
"With the end of World War 2, and decolonization since 1950s, civil war and insurgencies have replaced inter-state wars as the main form of conflict. However, a fundamental question remains unanswered by theorists of civil war-do historical institutions play a role in creating c…
"With the end of World War 2, and decolonization since 1950s, civil war and insurgencies have replaced inter-state wars as the main form of conflict. However, a fundamental question remains unanswered by theorists of civil war-do historical institutions play a role in creating c…
The book examines questions of identity, ethnicity, sovereignty and insurgency in northeastern India, and especially on Assam and its neighbourhood. Written by an academic-journalist, the various articles situate these in their larger social, economic, political and, above all, …
This is a study of the 1857 Mutiny and the accompanying rebellion in Bundelkhand, a division of the North-Western Provinces in present-day Uttar Pradesh. A brief review of the existing literature on 1857 shows how a stereotype evolved to set the standard model for writing the hi…