The Radicalisation Debate: Separating Grievance from Separatism
Grievance is not separatism, religiosity is not radicalism, memory is not mobilisation, and the fringe is not the community: the distinctions the radicalisation debate erases, what vigilance legitimately watches, and the economics underneath.
Read MoreBeant Singh: The Chief Minister of the Endgame
An unglamorous Congress veteran took a fraction of a mandate in 1992, gave the endgame its political cover, presided over the militancy's collapse and the campaign's costs alike, and predicted accurately what the signature would cost him.
Read MoreThe 1992 Elections: A Vote Held at Gunpoint
Turnout under twenty four percent, an Akali boycott, militant death threats against voters and the largest security deployment in Indian electoral history: the February 1992 election, its two contested readings, and what the safe polls that followed…
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