Internal Security in India
Violence, Order, and the State
Published on 20. January 2023
417 pages
978-0-19-766036-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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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.
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
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
