Armed militias of South Asia : fundamentalists, Maoists and separatists /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Milices armées d'Asie du sud.
Other Authors:	Gayer, Laurent, Jaffrelot, Christophe
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Political violence > Social aspects > South Asia. Militia movements > South Asia. Nationalism > Religious aspects. Ethnic conflict > South Asia.

Table of 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.