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Contributors
1. The State and Internal Security in India

AMIT AHUJA AND DEVESH KAPUR
PART I: INTERNAL SECURITY: THE LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK
2. Internal Security and India's Constitution
RAEESA VAKIL
3. The Persistence of the AFSPA
ANUBHA BHONSLE
4. Role of the MHA in Internal Security
SHAKTI SINHA
5. Public Finances of Internal Security in India
NIRVIKAR SINGH
PART II: INTERNAL SECURITY: DOCTRINE AND STRATEGY
6. India's Internal Security in Comparative Perspective PAUL STANILAND
7. India's Internal Security Doctrine in Practice
SUSHANT SINGH
PART III: INTERNAL SECURITY: THE STATE'S COERCIVE CAPACITY
8. The Military in Internal Security
AMIT AHUJA AND SRINATH RAGHAVAN
9. Role of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in India
YASHOVARDHAN AZAD
10. The Indian Police: Managing Dilemmas of Internal Security
AKSHAY MANGLA
11. Riots and Rapid Action: The Special Wing of the Central Reserve Police
NIRVIKAR JASSAL AND HANIF QURESHI
12. Protective Labor and Its Correlates: A Statistical Portrait
PAARITOSH NATH AND ARJUN JAYADEV
13. India's Intelligence in Internal Security SAIKAT DATTA

PART IV: INTERNAL SECURITY: INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES WITHIN THE SECURITY PROVIDERS
14. Included but Not Equal? Debating Gender and Labor Reforms within the Border Security Force
SAHANA GHOSH
15. Security Labor and State Suppression of Police Worker Politics
BEATRICE JAUREGUI

Maintaining order and containing violence-the core constituents of internal security-are fundamental responsibilities of any government. Yet, developing countries find this task especially challenging. In Internal Security in India, Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur, and a cast of leading scholars on the subject focus on India's security and the threats it faces. Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges, including insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence. Their toll has claimed more lives than all of India's five external wars put together. As the contributors in this volume analyze how the Indian State has managed the core concern of internal security over time, they address three broad questions: How well has India contained violence and preserved order? How have the approaches and capacity of the State evolved to attain these twin objectives? And what implications do the State's approach towards internal security have for civil liberties and the quality of democracy? A major reinterpretation of order and internal security in India, this book sheds light on an underanalyzed issue of global import given the changing nature of threats that states face.

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