Second World War. The advent and spread of communism and the rise of anti-colonial
nationalisni has, in the main, wrought this change. In the post-Second World War period …

India is unique because it continues to be the world's largest democracy, in spite of having
experienced multiple insurgencies. There are both leftist ideological types like the FARC in …

This chapter focuses on the experiences of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Mercantile and
manufacturing communities from sari weavers to tea planters depended on pragmatic co …

Since the British withdrew from the subcontinent, nations in the region have been at war with
each other. But instead of fighting long-drawnout wars like that between Iran and Iraq …

Insurgency in Nagaland has been described as the 'mother of all insurgent movements' in
the northeast. Factions have emerged reneging from the peace talks and have carried on …

by Shee Poon Kim he fall of Saigon in 1975 and the rapid spread of Communist rule to
South Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea might have seemed the prelude to new successes for …

In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship prone to conflict, Dr.
Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the British colonial disengagement policy, a hasty …

North East India, comprising the seven States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura1, and 7.6 per cent of land area and 3.6 per cent of …

The Indian Union has one of the world's most successful records in fighting insurgencies. It
has not yet lost a counter-insurgency campaign within the country; its only unsuccessful …

South and Southwest Asia are fraught with a range of conflicts. The central inter-state conflict
in the region is, of course, the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Virtually all the other …