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Political violence has remained an integral part of South Asian
society for decades. The region has witnessed and continued to
encounter violence for achieving political objectives from above
and from below. Violence is perpetrated by the state, by non-state
actors, and used by the citizens as a form of resistance. Ethnic
insurgency, religion-inspired extremism, and ideology-driven
hostility are examples of violent acts that have emerged as
challenges to the states which have responded with violence in the
form of civil war and through violations of human rights
disregarding international norms. This book explores various
dimensions of political violence in South Asia, namely in
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Each chapter
either speaks to an important aspect of the political violence or
provides an overall picture of the nature and scope of political
violence in the respective country. Political violence is
understood in the larger sense of political, that is, above and
beyond institutions, and also as an integral part of social
relationships where social norms and the role of individual agency
play seminal roles. The contributions in this book incorporate both
institutional and non-institutional dimensions of political
violence. Exploring how everyday life in South Asian states and
societies is transformed by the engagement with violence through
direct and indirect methods, this book adopts an interdisciplinary
framework; diverse methods are employed - from ethnographic
readings to more macro level analyses. The phenomenon is explored
from historical, sociological, and political perspectives. This
book will be useful as a supplementary text in courses on South
Asian Studies in general and South Asian Politics in particular.
Political violence has remained an integral part of South Asian
society for decades. The region has witnessed and continued to
encounter violence for achieving political objectives from above
and from below. Violence is perpetrated by the state, by non-state
actors, and used by the citizens as a form of resistance. Ethnic
insurgency, religion-inspired extremism, and ideology-driven
hostility are examples of violent acts that have emerged as
challenges to the states which have responded with violence in the
form of civil war and through violations of human rights
disregarding international norms. This book explores various
dimensions of political violence in South Asia, namely in
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Each chapter
either speaks to an important aspect of the political violence or
provides an overall picture of the nature and scope of political
violence in the respective country. Political violence is
understood in the larger sense of political, that is, above and
beyond institutions, and also as an integral part of social
relationships where social norms and the role of individual agency
play seminal roles. The contributions in this book incorporate both
institutional and non-institutional dimensions of political
violence. Exploring how everyday life in South Asian states and
societies is transformed by the engagement with violence through
direct and indirect methods, this book adopts an interdisciplinary
framework; diverse methods are employed - from ethnographic
readings to more macro level analyses. The phenomenon is explored
from historical, sociological, and political perspectives. This
book will be useful as a supplementary text in courses on South
Asian Studies in general and South Asian Politics in particular.
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