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India's Internal Security: Issues, Challenges and Options

In: Varying Dimensions of India’s National Security

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  • Mathew Sinu Simon

    (Law and Political Science at Presidency University)

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In the larger national security discourse, identifying and situating the internal security issues and challenges are very crucial. A dominant understanding of internal security issues in India has been around four major threats—the Maoist conflict, the ethnic conflicts in the North-eastern states, terrorism in hinterland and separatist violence in Jammu and Kashmir. While the security threat emerging from terrorism is often linked to the external sources (read Pakistan and Bangladesh) and hence hardly considered as an internal security issue; the other three issues are invariably engaged and discussed as internal security concerns of India. Accordingly, one can find out blurring distinction between external and internal security narratives. This chapter attempts to reorient the internal security understanding within the larger national security discourse in India. Subsequently, the chapter offers critical insights into each of these three internal security issues. Further, the chapter also highlights the state response to each of these conflicts and concludes with a set of recommendations to deal with them.

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  • Mathew Sinu Simon, 2022. "India's Internal Security: Issues, Challenges and Options," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Anshuman Behera & Sitakanta Mishra (ed.), Varying Dimensions of India’s National Security, chapter 0, pages 107-120, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-16-7593-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7593-5_8
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