Overview
The ""Punjab crisis,"" a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived notion of looking at Punjab as the model of political stability in independent India and, on the other, raised several lingering socio-political questions which have great effect on Indian politics for decades to come, including the prospects of recurring ethnic insurgencies. The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focussing on ""patterns of political leadership"", a previously unexplored explanatory variable. It describes in detail the trends which led to the emergence of the ""Punjab crisis"", the various dynamics through which the movement sustained itself and the changing nature of ""patterns of political leadership"" which eventually resulted in its decline in the mid-1990s. Providing a microhistorical analysis of the ""Punjab crisis,"" this book argues that the trajectories of ethnonationalist movements are largely determined by the interaction between self-interested ethnic and state political elites, who not only react to the structural choices they face, but whose purposeful actions and decisions ultimately affect the course of ethnic group—state relations. It consolidates this theoretical preposition through a comparative analysis of four contemporary global ethnonationalist movements—those occurring in Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Kashmir, and Assam. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying political science and history, especially those working on South Asia and the Sikhs, and also for public policy practitioners in multi-ethnic societies. It remains invaluable reading for those interested in the phenomenon of ethnonationalism.
Full Product Details
Author: Jugdep S Chima
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.50cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9788132103028
ISBN 10: 8132103025
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 25 January 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.
Reviews
The book is a diligent, dense narrative of the insurgency in India's state of Punjab from 1970 to the 1990s...The book provides a valuable compilation of details about the Punjab insurgency -- a narrative that goes year by year and almost month by month at some junctures. -- The Journal of Asian Studies The book throws light on the political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on patterns of political leadership , the trends which led to the emergence of the 'Punjab crisis', the various dynamics through which the movement sustained itself and the changing nature of patterns of political leadership which led to its decline in the mid-1990's. -- Organiser It is an important resource on the state of Punjab and the journey that it has emerged out of. The work has to be read as carefully as it has been written. -- The Tribune Jugdep S Chima's The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India addresses not only this turning point, but encompasses, within its 315 pages, a commendable account of the rise, sustenance and decline of the Sikh quest for an independent state. It should be useful reading for public policymakers and the intelligence community. The book is the story of a model province's dramatic transformation into a hotbed of an ethno-nationalist movement and its mutation into an armed secessionist uprising for the creation of an independent Sikh state. -- Dawn
The book is a diligent, dense narrative of the insurgency in India's state of Punjab from 1970 to the 1990s...The book provides a valuable compilation of details about the Punjab insurgency - a narrative that goes year by year and almost month by month at some junctures. -- The Journal of Asian Studies The book throws light on the political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on patterns of political leadership , the trends which led to the emergence of the `Punjab crisis`, the various dynamics through which the movement sustained itself and the changing nature of patterns of political leadership which led to its decline in the mid-1990`s. -- Organiser It is an important resource on the state of Punjab and the journey that it has emerged out of. The work has to be read as carefully as it has been written. -- The Tribune Jugdep S Chima`s The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India addresses not only this turning point, but encompasses, within its 315 pages, a commendable account of the rise, sustenance and decline of the Sikh quest for an independent state. It should be useful reading for public policymakers and the intelligence community. The book is the story of a model province`s dramatic transformation into a hotbed of an ethno-nationalist movement and its mutation into an armed secessionist uprising for the creation of an independent Sikh state. -- Dawn
Jugdep S Chima`s The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India addresses not only this turning point, but encompasses, within its 315 pages, a commendable account of the rise, sustenance and decline of the Sikh quest for an independent state. It should be useful reading for public policymakers and the intelligence community. The book is the story of a model province`s dramatic transformation into a hotbed of an ethno-nationalist movement and its mutation into an armed secessionist uprising for the creation of an independent Sikh state. -- Dawn It is an important resource on the state of Punjab and the journey that it has emerged out of. The work has to be read as carefully as it has been written. -- The Tribune The book throws light on the political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on patterns of political leadership , the trends which led to the emergence of the `Punjab crisis`, the various dynamics through which the movement sustained itself and the changing nature of patterns of political leadership which led to its decline in the mid-1990`s. -- Organiser The book is a diligent, dense narrative of the insurgency in India's state of Punjab from 1970 to the 1990s...The book provides a valuable compilation of details about the Punjab insurgency - a narrative that goes year by year and almost month by month at some junctures. -- The Journal of Asian Studies
Author Information
Jugdep S Chima currently holds the position of Associate Editor for South Asia with Asian Survey (Institute of East Asian Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously held the positions of Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow with the Center for South Asia Studies at the same institution during 2005–06 and 2003–05, respectively. His research articles have been published in Asian Survey, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Review of International Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
