| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Becoming Brogpa; 2 The Hill Council and the healing touch; 3 Pajlus, porters, and heroes; 4 Heart warfare?; 5 Blurred boundaries; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan's fourth war in 1999, this book analyses how humanitarian policies of healing and heart warfare infused the logic of democracy and militarism in the post-war period. Compassion became a strategy to contain political dissension, regulate citizenship, and normalize the extensive militarization of Kargil |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Counterinsurgency -- Social aspects -- India -- Kargil
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Ladakhi (South Asian people) -- Social conditions
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Kargil (India) -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
India -- Kargil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134509836 |
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1134509839 |
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1315889862 |
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9781315889863 |
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9781134509904 |
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1134509901 |
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