Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development By Aparna Sundar
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South Asia has become the site of major civil or internal wars with both domestic and global consequences The conflict in Kashmir for example continues to make headlines while those in the Northeast and central India simmer though relatively unnoticed There appears to be no clear resolution to the civil war and occupation in Afghanistan even as Nepal and Sri Lanka work out their very different post war settlements In Bangladesh the war of 1971 remains a political fault line as the events around the War Crimes Tribunal show This volume demonstrates the importance of South Asia as a region to deepening the study of civil wars and armed conflicts and simultaneously illustrates how civil wars open up questions of sovereignty citizenship and state contours By engaging these broader theoretical debates in a field largely dominated by security studies and comparative politics it contributes to the study of civil wars political sociology anthropology and political theory This volume is one of the few books that is genuinely and equally representative of scholarship across South Asia contributing not just to the study of civil wars but also to the study of South Asia as a region Civil Wars in South Asia State Sovereignty Development
There are 10 essays in this book all of them centered around Civil Wars in South Asian countries India gets two one about Kashmir and another about AFSPA in the Northeast Pakistan gets two also I suppose if you count Bangladesh Liberation in its account along with the tribal militancy in the NWFP the Srilankan civil war the successful maoist uprising in Nepal the Afghanistan war the Karen militancy in Myanmar and two general essays setting the ground. Civil Wars in South Asia books The essays are set around those wars but focus on one specific facet of each of those wars with sharp focus on that aspect of the war Some of them don t seem to be of much substance because of this reason the Nepal essay comes to mind with its focus on the response of the foreign aid agencies to the insurgency Not very compelling in what the significance of it is The Srilankan civil war one has an interesting premise that the war hasn t economically ruined Srilanka as civil wars are wont to do but the analysis didn t feel like much The Afghan one is about transnational networks meaning smuggling rings foreign aid etc. Civil Wars in South asiagv but again the argument either went over my head or was not substantial I ve liked both of the India ones The AFSPA one particularly traces the law to colonial era laws and the debates in Parliament about them fascinating insight about the attitude of the founders of India The Kashmir one is focused on Shopian and Bomai agitations how they ve decoupled themselves from the larger struggle as a matter of strategy The Bangladesh Pakistan one is about the debates in Britain about whether it is a civil war or genocide Again it wasn t very compelling because it didn t seem like Britain had much effect on the whole business The Pakistan essay deals with tribal militancy in NWFP that has become Islamic in nature it analyses the Pakistan State s policies that led to this very interesting The Myanmar Karen insurgency essay is about countering the primordialist and instrumentalist theories of the conflict The first one says there is ethnic conflict because these ethnic identities are immutable and fundamentally incompatible and hence conflict is inevitable the sort of theory British make up The second one says the polarisation is the result of engineering by the elites and it is imposed onto the masses The essay disagrees with both of them and presents some evidence but I think it was easy to do that because both those theories seem moronic. Civil Wars in South Asia pdfescape Maybe read some of the essays The ones to do with India Pakistan Civil Wars in South Asia State Sovereignty Development It is an excellent and relevant compilation of well researched essays about the major civil and internal wars of South Asian countries at regional and national levels both of pre and post independence era The political considerations of them are well elaborated which impact both domestically and globally Civil Wars in South Asia State Sovereignty Development
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