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Analyze the basic causes of insurgency and terrorism in two major areas that are affected in the country. In this regard, to what extent have state policies to counter terrorism been effective in these areas?

  • UPSC 2009
  • 60 marks
  • India and South Asia

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An insurgency contests control of territory and population and needs a base; terrorism is coercion through violence against civilians and needs only a target. India's two longest-running theatres, Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East, combine both. They share a structure: grievance of the kind Ted Robert Gurr called relative deprivation (Why Men Rebel, 1970) turns…

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  • Causes in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Causes in the North-East
  • State policies
  • How effective?
  • Conclusion
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