The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India; Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements

This book provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on the 'œpatterns of political leadership'�, a previously unexplored variable. It describes in detail the events which led to the emergence of the 'œPunjab Crisis'�, the various means through which the movement was sustained, and the changing nature of political leadership and courses of military action which necessitated its decline in the mid-1990s. Providing a microhistorical analysis of the Punjab crisis, the book argues that the trajectories of ethnonationalist movements are largely based on the interaction between self-interested political elites, who not only react to the structural choices they face, but whose purposeful actions and decisions ultimately affect the course of ethnic group-state relations.

Jugdep S. Chima currently holds the positional of Associate Editor for South Asia with Asian Survey (Institute of East Asian Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley. He has previously also held other positions at the University of California, Berkeley including Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow with the Center for South Asia Studies, and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. His research articles have been published in Asian Survey, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Review of International Studies, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.