Issue 31 - October 2009 - Targeting Naxalism (3.5 MB)
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Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's characterisation of the Naxalite movement as the biggest threat to India's internal security, for years, the Indian government showed little imagination and resolve in earnestly confronting it. Even as the Naxalite movement consolidated across the country, moving cadre, arms and funds across state and international borders, the Indian government's response was inefficient and lacked coordination. Not only did this result in Naxalites gaining strength unchecked, it also resulted in dubious and poorly-conceived responses like raising tribal militias and ham-fisted police action against rural and tribal populations in the worst-affected areas.
In its second-term, the UPA government has demonstrated more seriousness in tackling what it calls Left Wing Extremism. Most of this month's issue of Pragati deals with the nature of the Naxalite threat and the ways to address it. We argue that Naxalism is a manifestation of poor or absent governance but establishing good governance in Naxalite-affected areas, after successful security operations, requires the Indian government to invest in hybrid civil-military capacity that it does not yet have at the present time.
In addition: we have essays on the flux in Afghanistan, the UPA government's much-publicised austerity drive; a parliamentary brief that examines MPs' voting record; and other regular features.
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best regards
The Pragati team
PERSPECTIVE
An ideological adversary
Ground realities of the Naxalite movement
V Balachandran
Hope is the antidote to Naxalism
Scant attention is paid to good governance at the local level
Raj Cherubal
Why trying to buy surrender will not work
Financial incentives for surrender will result in an increase in violence
Atanu Dey
Money and friends
Tracing the Naxalites’ linkages to crime and other armed groups
Ankur Kumar
IN DEPTH
Winning the counter-insurgency endgame
India must raise a new agency to ‘fight’ the last stage of counter-insurgency
Sushant K Singh & Nitin Pai
IN PARLIAMENT
Where our MPs stand
M R Madhavan
ROUNDUP
The Afghanistan conundrum
The road to achieving India’s objectives lies, unfortunately, through Washington
Dhruva Jaishankar
Enough austerity. How about some consumerism?
The problem with the UPA government’s ‘austerity drive’
Rohit Pradhan
BRIEF
Filter
Ravi Gopalan
BOOKS
Partners and their naturalness
A balanced and even-handed account of India-US relations
Dhruva Jaishankar
Despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's characterisation of the Naxalite movement as the biggest threat to India's internal security, for years, the Indian government showed little imagination and resolve in earnestly confronting it. Even as the Naxalite movement consolidated across the country, moving cadre, arms and funds across state and international borders, the Indian government's response was inefficient and lacked coordination. Not only did this result in Naxalites gaining strength unchecked, it also resulted in dubious and poorly-conceived responses like raising tribal militias and ham-fisted police action against rural and tribal populations in the worst-affected areas.
In its second-term, the UPA government has demonstrated more seriousness in tackling what it calls Left Wing Extremism. Most of this month's issue of Pragati deals with the nature of the Naxalite threat and the ways to address it. We argue that Naxalism is a manifestation of poor or absent governance but establishing good governance in Naxalite-affected areas, after successful security operations, requires the Indian government to invest in hybrid civil-military capacity that it does not yet have at the present time.
In addition: we have essays on the flux in Afghanistan, the UPA government's much-publicised austerity drive; a parliamentary brief that examines MPs' voting record; and other regular features.
Read & Share!
best regards
The Pragati team
PRAGATI - THE INDIAN NATIONAL INTEREST REVIEW
Issue 31 | October 2009
Issue 31 | October 2009
PERSPECTIVE
An ideological adversary
Ground realities of the Naxalite movement
V Balachandran
Hope is the antidote to Naxalism
Scant attention is paid to good governance at the local level
Raj Cherubal
Why trying to buy surrender will not work
Financial incentives for surrender will result in an increase in violence
Atanu Dey
Money and friends
Tracing the Naxalites’ linkages to crime and other armed groups
Ankur Kumar
IN DEPTH
Winning the counter-insurgency endgame
India must raise a new agency to ‘fight’ the last stage of counter-insurgency
Sushant K Singh & Nitin Pai
IN PARLIAMENT
Where our MPs stand
M R Madhavan
ROUNDUP
The Afghanistan conundrum
The road to achieving India’s objectives lies, unfortunately, through Washington
Dhruva Jaishankar
Enough austerity. How about some consumerism?
The problem with the UPA government’s ‘austerity drive’
Rohit Pradhan
BRIEF
Filter
Ravi Gopalan
BOOKS
Partners and their naturalness
A balanced and even-handed account of India-US relations
Dhruva Jaishankar
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