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Author Gates, Scott.

Title Unconventional warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the present / edited by Scott Gates and Kaushik Roy
Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
©2011

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Description xx, 376 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Series Critical essays on warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the present
Critical essays on warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the present.
Contents Contents note continued: 15.̀The Indian Armed Forces' Sikh and Non-Sikh Officers' Opinion of Operation Blue Star', Pacific Affairs, 67, pp. 46-69Apurba Kundu / Apurba Kundu -- 16.̀Gandhi and Bin Laden: Religious Conflict at the Polar Extremes', Journal of Conflict Studies, 26, pp. 35-54 / James L. Rowell -- 17.̀Just and Unjust War in Hindu Philosophy', Journal of Military Ethics, 6, pp. 232-45 / Kaushik Roy -- 18.̀Tamil Tiger "Martyrs": Regenerating Divine Potency?', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 28, pp. 493-514 / Michael Roberts -- 19.̀Is the Sri Lankan War a Buddhist Fundamentalism?', in Mahinda Deegalle (ed.), Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 22-37 / Richard Gombrich
Contents note continued: 8.̀The Insurgency Environment in Northeast India', Small Wars and Insurgencies, 17, pp. 126-47 / Lawrence E. Cline -- 9.̀Confronting Constructionism: Ending India's Naga War', Journal of Peace Research, 40, pp. 321-38 / Sanjib Baruah -- 10.̀Bhutan's Military Action against Indian Insurgents', Asian Survey, 45, pp. 566-80 / Arijit Mazumdar -- 11.̀Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal', Review of Development Economics, 9, pp. 121-34 / Scott Gates -- 12.̀Prabhakaran as Leader of the LTTE', Journal of the United Service Institution of India, 131, pp. 194-210 / Brigadier S.P. Sinha -- 13.̀Cogs in the Wheel? Women in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam', Civil Wars, 6, pp. 37-54 / Miranda Alison -- 14.̀Factors Leading to Insurgency in Balochistan', Small Wars and Insurgencies, 19, pp. 182-200 / Alok Bansal -- pt. II UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE AND RELIGION --
Machine generated contents note: pt. I INSURGENCIES, COUNTER-INSURGENCIES AND TERRORISM -- 1.̀Paramilitary Forces in India', Armed Forces and Society, 6, pp. 371-88 / K.P. Misra -- 2.̀Innovations in Counterinsurgency: The Indian Army's Rashtriya Rifles', Contemporary South Asia, 13, pp. 25-37 / Rajesh Rajagopalan -- 3.̀India's Counter-Insurgency Experience: The "Trust and Nurture" Strategy', Small Wars and Insurgencies, 20, pp. 66-86 / Namrata Goswami -- 4.̀Counterinsurgency in Pakistan: Learning from India', National Security Outlook, September, pp. 1-6 / Anit Mukherjee -- 5.̀The Fire Within: Naxalite Insurgency Violence in India', Small Wars and Insurgencies, 18, pp. 249-74 / Rajat Ganguly -- 6.̀Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay', International Security, 21, pp. 76-107 / Sumit Ganguly -- 7.̀India, Pakistan, and Kashmir: Antinomies of Nationalism', Asian Survey, 31, pp. 997-1019 / Ashutosh Varshney --
Summary A collection of facsimile reprints of selected papers previously published in various journals
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Gates, Scott.
Insurgency -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Insurgency -- South Asia -- History -- 21st century.
Irregular warfare -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Irregular warfare -- South Asia -- History -- 21st century.
SUBJECT South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006110
South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- History, Military -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006117
South Asia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117020 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
South Asia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117020 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
Author Gates, Scott.
Roy, Kaushik.
LC no. 2011920454
ISBN 9780754629771 (hardback : alk. paper)