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Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India - From Warfare to Welfare? (Paperback)
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Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India - From Warfare to Welfare? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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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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