India’s Internal Security: Threat Perception and Way Forward

Dublin Core

Title

India’s Internal Security: Threat Perception and Way Forward

Subject

India
Internal security
South Asia

Description

Contrary to popular discourse, the threats emanating from the internal security issues pose serious security threats to the Indian stateand its people. Faced with numerous internal security challenges, the Indian experience of dealing with them has been a mixed experience. Arguably, no other country has ever faced such multiple internal security threats, in various forms and intensity than the Indian state. While the threat perception emanating from the internal security challenges has de-escalated over the last few years, they refuse to die down. Considering the immediacy of the issue, this paper critically engages with the contemporary internal security challenges that the Indian state encounters. In doing so the paper reflects upon the very process through which each of these internal security threats operates and highlights the nature and the intensity of threat perception. Through providing a conceptual framework, the paper also evaluates the state's responses to the internal security issues. The paper limits its scope to four major internal security issues in India: The Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), the violent conflicts in the Northeastern states, Separatism and terrorism in Jammu, and Kashmir (J&K), and communal violence and religious radicalization.

Creator

Behera, Anshuman

Source

CLAWS Journal; Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Winter 2021; 28-45
2319-5177

Publisher

Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India

Date

2021-12-31

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India
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Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Collection

Citation

Anshuman Behera, India’s Internal Security: Threat Perception and Way Forward, Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India, 2021, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/85

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