Low Intensity Conflicts in India: An AnalysisSAGE, 2005 M03 23 - 513 pages `Major Chadha`s research is exhaustive, extensive and in-depth reading through this book was a learning experience' - Lt Gen (Retd) V K Sood Former Vice-Chief of Army Staff and Consulting Editor Force `Remarkable both for its scholarly rigour and precision of research, Major Chadha`s book is innovative both in its analysis and in terms of description, nuances and prognosis' - Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) Kapil Kak This book is the first history of Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) in India since independence. It analyzes the roots of conflict in a range of contexts. In the author's view, India's struggle for independence itself rates as the 20th century's most significant LIC. Subsequent conflicts have made India possibly the world's most complex and varied theatre of LICs. Lt Col Vivek Chadha is presently at Army Headquarters, New Delhi. |
Contents
List of Figures | 13 |
Chapter 1 | 19 |
LIC Operations in India | 26 |
Chapter 2 | 35 |
Dogra Rule and British Influence | 41 |
The Role of the British | 48 |
Counter Offensive in Jammu Subdivision | 69 |
Chapter 3 | 77 |
Chapter 10 | 221 |
Rise of Nationalism | 229 |
Legacy of the Past | 230 |
93 | 236 |
Immediate Causes | 244 |
Historical Journey | 257 |
Hopes of Peace | 271 |
Alienation of Nagaland | 290 |
Chapter 4 | 85 |
Chapter 5 | 100 |
Preceding Events | 140 |
Chapter 6 | 143 |
The Aggression | 148 |
Pakistani Defeat | 155 |
223 | 156 |
29 | 163 |
Sikh Power Frittered Away | 170 |
35 | 171 |
Sikh Militarism | 177 |
57 | 178 |
Sikh Factionalism | 183 |
6688 | 185 |
PoliticoReligious Mix | 192 |
Operation Blue Star | 200 |
Rise in Violence | 207 |
Final Phase Begins | 214 |
Chapter 13 | 306 |
94 | 319 |
Chapter 14 | 322 |
PreIndependence Period | 324 |
Independence | 330 |
Operation Jericho | 339 |
Operation Chin Hills | 347 |
Chapter 15 | 354 |
Independence | 361 |
Militancy Yet Again | 371 |
96 | 373 |
Chapter 16 | 379 |
The Rise of GNLF and Aggression | 386 |
Beginning of Armed Struggle | 392 |
The Struggle Spreads | 400 |
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