This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging
counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947.
Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and
assess the origins, evolution and current state of India's
counterinsurgency strategies and capabilities, focusing on key
counterinsurgency campaigns waged by India within and outside its
territory. It also analyzes the development of Indian doctrine on
counterinsurgency, and locates this within the overall ebb and flow
of India's defense and security policies. The central argument is
that counterinsurgency has been an integral part of India's overall
security policy and can thereby impart much to political and
military leaders in other states. Since its emergence from British
colonialism, India's defence policies have not merely sought to
protect and preserve India's inherited colonial borders from
threats by rival states, but have also sought to prevent and
suppress secessionist movements. In countering insurgencies, the
Indian state has fashioned strategies that seek to repress
militarily any secessionist movement, while simultaneously forging
a range of civilian administrative and institutional arrangements
that attempt to address the grievances of disaffected
populations.
The book highlights key strategic and tactical innovations that
the Indian Army and security forces made to deal with a range of
insurgent movements. Simultaneously, it also examines how the
civilian-military nexus enabled India's policy makers to utilize
existing, and formulate novel, institutional means to address
extant political grievances. India has been most successful where
it has managed to use calibrated force, obtained the trust of much
of the aggrieved population and made persuasive commitments to
political and institutional reform. Examination of these elements
of India's counterinsurgency performance can be compared to
counterinsurgency doctrine developed by other countries, including
the United States, and thus yield comparative policy prescriptions
and recommendations that can be applied to other counterinsurgency
contexts.
This book will be of great interest to students of
counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, Indian politics, Asian
Security Studies and Strategic Studies in general.
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