Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

Name: Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India
Brand: Routledge
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By Mona Bhan

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The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan's fourth war in 1999, this book analyses how humanitarian policies of healing and heart warfare infused the logic of democracy and militarism in the post-war period.
Compassion became a strategy to contain political dissension, regulate citizenship, and normalize the extensive militarization of Kargil's social and political order. The book uses the power of ethnography to foreground people's complex subjectivities and the violence of compassion, healing, and sacrifice in India's disputed frontier state. Based on extensive research in several sites across the region, from border villages in Kargil to military bases and state offices in Ladakh and Kashmir, this engaging book presents new material on military-civil relations, the securitization of democracy and development, and the extensive militarization of everyday life and politics. It is of interest to scholars working in diverse fields including political anthropology, development, and Asian Studies.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 250
Release Date:: 2015-08-14
Publication Date:: 2015-07-18
Publisher:: Routledge
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 113894842X
ISBN13:: 9781138948426
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 386 g
Height:: 15.6 cm
Width:: 23.4 cm
Thickness:: 1.4 cm

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