Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India

Chima, Jugdep S.:
The Sikh separatist insurgency in India : political leadership and ethnonationalist movements / Jugdep S. Chima. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Sage Publications, 2010. - xix, 314 S. : Ill.
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Beschreibung
The Punjab crisis, a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated casualty of no less than 25,000 people in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on the one hand ended the perceived notion of looking at Punjab as the model of political stability of independent India, and on the other raised several politico-social questions which had a great effect on Indian politics for decades to come.
   The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in Punjab-India provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on the “patterns of political leadership”, a previously unexplored variable. It describes in detail the events which led to the emergence of the “Punjab Crisis”, the various means through which the movement was sustained, and the changing nature of political leadership and courses of military action which necessitated its decline in the mid-1990s.
   Providing a microhistorical analysis of the Punjab crisis, the book argues that the trajectories of ethnonationalist movements are largely based on the interaction between self-interested political elites, who not only react to the structural choices they face, but whose purposeful actions and decisions ultimately affect the course of ethnic group-state relations. It consolidates this theoretical preposition through a comparative analysis of four contemporary global ethnonationalist movements—those that occurred in Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Kashmir, and Assam. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Tables. ix
List of Abbreviations. xi
Preface. xv
Acknowledgements. xvii
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
   "Patterns of Political Leadership" and Ethnonationalist Insurgency. 3
   Sikh Ethnic Identity and Early Post-Independence Politics in Punjab. 22
PART TWO: THE EMERGENCE OF THE SIKH ETHNONATIONALIST MOVEMENT (1978-1984)
   Beginnings of Sikh Extremism - 1978-81. 41
   Emergence of Ethnonationalist Violence - 1981 to 1983. 58
   Agitation, Ethnic Insurgency, and the Road to Operation Bluestar - 1983 to 1984. 79
PART THREE: THE SUSTENANCE OF THE SIKH ETHNONATIONALIST MOVEMENT (1984-1992)
   Failed Political Compromises and Re-marginalizaion of Sikh Moderates 1984 to 1986. 103
   Reorganization of the Militants and the Armed Struggle for Khalistan - 1986 to 1988. 127
   The Divided State and Electoral Victory of the Extremists - 1988 to 1990. 157
   Escalating Factionalism and Internecine Violence within the Separatist Movement - 1990 to 1992. 182
PART FOUR: THE DEMISE OF THE SIKH ETHNONATIONALIST MOVEMENT (1992-1997)
   The Crushing of the Violent Sikh Ethnonationalist Movement by the Unified State -1992 to 1993. 217
   The Return of Normalcy to Punjab and Sikh Politics -1993 -1997. 238
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
   "Patterns of Political Leadership" and Ethnonationalist Insurgency in a Comparative Perspective. 263
Glossary. 297
Select Bibliography. 300
Index. 307
About the Author. 315

Autor
JUGDEP S. CHIMA, Associate Editor for South Asia, Asian Survey, University of California

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