Armed militias of South Asia : fundamentalists, Maoists and separatists / Laurent Gayer, Christophe Jaffrelot, editors ; translated by Cynthia Schoch, Gregory Elliott and Roger Leverdier.
Contributor(s): Gayer, Laurent [editor.] | Jaffrelot, Christophe [editor.].
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TextSeries: Comparative politics and international studies series: Publisher: New Delhi : Foundation Books, c2009Description: xiv, 276 pages : maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781850659778; 9781850659761.Uniform titles: Milices armées d'Asie du sud. English. Subject(s): Political violence -- Social aspects -- South Asia | Militia movements -- South Asia | Nationalism -- Religious aspects | Ethnic conflict -- South AsiaDDC classification: 303.620954 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Naxalism in Bihar : from bullet to ballot / Nicolas Jaoul -- Maoism and the ethnic factor in the Nepalese People's War / Gilles Boquérat -- Fighting with ideas : Maoist and popular conceptions of the Nepalese People's War / Marie Lecomte-Tillouine -- The LTTE : a national liberation and oppression movement / Chris Smith -- Burma's militias : between insurgency and maintaining order / Renaud Egreteau -- A patron-client perspective on militia-state relations : the case of the Hizb-ul-Mujahidin of Kashmir / Amélie Blom -- The SSP : herald of militant Sunni Islam in Pakistan / Mariam Abou Zahab -- The Islamist militias of Bangladesh : symptoms of a weak state? / Jérémie Codron -- The militias of Hindutva : communal violence, terrorism and cultural policing / Christophe Jaffrelot -- The Khalistan militias : servants and users of the state / Laurent Gayer.