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Terrorism, Religious Radicalism and Violence: Perspectives from India
Devyani Srivastava
IB120-Ploughshares-Devyani.pdf
 

Terrorism in India has hitherto been understood either as a constituent of the country’s multiple conflicts – nationalist, separatist and ideological – or as part of state patronage through proxy wars. The November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai underscores its regional nature, over and above the already thriving transnational operational linkages.

Although India suffers from acts of violence by right-wing forces, this essay restricts its assessment to transnational Islamist terrorism, mainly because of its regional linkages as opposed to the domestic roots of the former. 

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