South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind, extremism and terrorism are invariably linked to ethnic and religious factors. Yet the dominant history of South Asia is notable for tolerance and co-existence, despite highly plural societies. Deepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh perspective on the causes of extremism. What accounts for its rise in societies not historically predisposed to extremism? What determines the winners and losers in the identity struggles in South Asia? What tips the balance between more moderate versus extremist outcomes? The book argues that politics, inter-state and international relations often play a more important role in the rise of extremism in South Asia than religious identity, poverty, and state repression.
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Deepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh perspective on the causes of extremism. Politics, inter-state and international relations play a more important role in the rise of extremism in South Asia than religious identity, poverty, and state repression.
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Deepa M. Ollapally is Professorial Lecturer, and the Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School for International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC. She is an expert on South Asian politics and international security and her publications include Confronting Conflict: Domestic Factors and US Policymaking in the Third World (1993).
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ethnic assertiveness, unstable secularism, extremist outcomes, violent spiral, political secularism, geopolitical identity, geopolitical identities, principled distance, violent extremist groups, jihadi groups, regional geopolitics, violent extremism, identity conceptions, extremist violence, foreign policy purposes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asia, Sri Lanka, The Politics of Extremism, New Delhi, New York, The Hindu, Tamil Nadu, International Crisis Group, Oxford University Press, Middle East, Awami League, Congress Party, Kashmiri Muslims, Gaffar Khan, Kashmir Valley, Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia, National Conference, Indian Tamils, East Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, The Asian Age, Benazir Bhutto, Penguin Books, Muslim League Browse Sample Pages:
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ethnic assertiveness, unstable secularism, extremist outcomes, violent spiral, political secularism, geopolitical identity, geopolitical identities, principled distance, violent extremist groups, jihadi groups, regional geopolitics, violent extremism, identity conceptions, extremist violence, foreign policy purposes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Asia, Sri Lanka, The Politics of Extremism, New Delhi, New York, The Hindu, Tamil Nadu, International Crisis Group, Oxford University Press, Middle East, Awami League, Congress Party, Kashmiri Muslims, Gaffar Khan, Kashmir Valley, Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia, National Conference, Indian Tamils, East Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, The Asian Age, Benazir Bhutto, Penguin Books, Muslim League Browse Sample Pages:
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