An overarching exploration of the Indian state's approaches, laws, and organizations that maintain order and contain violence.
Maintaining order and containing violence-the core constituents of internal security-are fundamental responsibilities of any government. Yet, developing countries find this task especially challenging. In Internal Security in India, Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur, and a cast of leading scholars on the subject focus on India's security and the threats it faces. Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges, including insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence. Their toll has claimed more lives than all of India's five external wars put together. As the contributors in this volume analyze how the Indian State has managed the core concern of internal security over time, they address three broad questions: How well has India contained violence and preserved order? How have the approaches and capacity of the State evolved to attain these twin objectives? And what implications do the State's approach towards internal security have for civil liberties and the quality of democracy? A major reinterpretation of order and internal security in India, this book sheds light on an underanalyzed issue of global import given the changing nature of threats that states face.
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India's internal security is a subject of such immediate political and social relevance that it is not often the subject of rigorous academic study. That gap has been filled by this volume edited by Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur, two scholars with outstanding credentials, covering the institutional, doctrinal, organizational, and other aspects of this contentious subject. The volume thus takes an integrated view of India's internal security. Its strength lies in its reliance on data, the coherence of its arguments, and the reliance on academic disciplines honed in other contexts. All in all, a significant book on an important subject that will become ever more relevant as the pace of change in India accelerates in years to come. * Shivshankar Menon, Former National Security Advisor and Foreign Secretary, Government of India * The carefully researched essays in this book document the decline in many measures of internal violence in India but also disturbing changes in the use of force by the state. It should be read by any person interested in India today. * Stephen Peter Rosen, Harvard College Professor and Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard University * This is an extraordinarily good volume, bringing together experts on all aspects of India's internal security: from its expanding private security businesses, to its overstretched police forces, to the complex structures through which India's political, military, and intelligence leaders respond to internal security challenges. This volume goes far beyond description, to analyze the larger strategies behind these responses, and the ways in which India's internal security state affects Indian democracy, federalism, and the rights of all its citizens. Indispensable. * Steven Wilkinson, Professor of Political Science, Yale University *
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40 b/w line drawings; 1 map; 11 tables
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Höhe: 210 mm
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978-0-19-766033-1 (9780197660331)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Amit Ahuja is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Devesh Kapur is Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
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Associate Professor, Director of Graduate StudiesAssociate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Starr Foundation South Asia Studies ProfessorStarr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor, Johns Hopkins University
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Contributors
Chapter 1 The State and Internal Security in India
Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur
Chapter 2 Internal Security and India's Constitution
Raeesa Vakil
Chapter 3 The Persistence of the AFSPA
Anubha Bhonsle
Chapter 4 Role of MHA in Internal Security
Shakti Sinha
Chapter 5 Public Finances of Internal Security in India
Nirvikar Singh
Chapter 6 India's Internal Security in Comparative Perspective
Paul Staniland
Chapter 7 India's Internal Security Doctrine in Practice
Sushant Singh
Chapter 8 Military in Internal Security
Amit Ahuja and Srinath Raghavan
Chapter 9 Role of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in India
Yashovardhan Azad
Chapter 10 The Indian Police: Managing Dilemmas of Internal Security
Akshay Mangla
Chapter 11 Riots & Rapid Action: The Special Wing of the Central Reserve Police
Nirvikar Jassal and Hanif Qureshi
Chapter 12 Protective Labor and its Correlates: A Statistical Portrait
Paaritosh Nath and Arjun Jayadev
Chapter 13 India's Intelligence in Internal Security
Saikat Datta
Chapter 14 Included but not Equal? Debating Gender and Labor Reforms within the Border Security Force
Sahana Ghosh
Chapter 15 Security Labor and State Suppression of Police Worker Politics
Beatrice Jauregui
Notes
Index
