Internal Security in India -

Internal Security in India

Violence, Order, and the State

Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-766034-8 (ISBN)
29,95 inkl. MwSt
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie MODERN SOUTH ASIA SERIES
Zusatzinfo 40 b/w line drawings; 1 map; 11 tables
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 235 x 154 mm
Gewicht 603 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-766034-7 / 0197660347
ISBN-13 978-0-19-766034-8 / 9780197660348
Zustand Neuware
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