Armed militias of South Asia
Subtitle: fundamentalists, Maoists, and separatists
By: Laurent Gayer, Christophe Jaffrelot, editors ; translated by Cynthia Schoch, Gregory Elliott, and Roger Leverdier.
Contributors: Gayer, Laurent.; Jaffrelot, Christophe.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231701105
Subjects: Political violence -- Social aspects -- South Asia; Militia movements -- South Asia; Nationalism -- Religious aspects; Ethnic conflict -- South Asia
Work titles: Milices armées d'Asie du sud. English.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Naxalism in Bihar : from bullet to ballot / Nicolas Jaoul; title: Maoism and the ethnic factor in the Nepalese People's War / Gilles Boquarat; title: Fighting with ideas : Maoist and popular conceptions of the Nepalese People's War / Marie Lecomte-Tillouine; title: The LTTE : a national liberation and oppression movement / Chris Smith; title: Burma's militias : between insurgency and maintaining order / Renaud Egreteau; title: A patron-client perspective on militia-state relations : the case of the Hizb-ul-mujahidin of Kashmir / Amalie Blom; title: The SSP : herald of militant Sunni Islam in Pakistan / Mariam Abou Zahab; title: The Islamist militias of Bangladesh: symptoms of a weak state? / Jaramie Codron; title: The militias of Hindutva : between communal violence, terrorism, and cultural policing / Christophe Jaffrelot; title: The Khalistan militias : servants and users of the state / Laurent Gayer.