Removing a Thorn with a Thorn| Evaluating India's Use of Militias in Counterinsurgency

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<p> Despite being a popular tool for counterinsurgency, the literature on pro-government militias remain divided. One strand focuses on the security benefits that the militias bring, while the other argues that they generate a political backlash. Using India's counterinsurgency campaigns in Kashmir and Chhattisgarh, I test a wide variety of hypotheses generated from the literature. </p>

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10283726
Date	08 July 2017
Creators	Prasad, Hari
Publisher	The George Washington University
Source Sets	ProQuest.com
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	thesis