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Interning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy

@article{Sundar2011InterningIP,
  title={Interning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy},
  author={Nandini Sundar},
  journal={Economic and Political Weekly},
  year={2011}
}
  • N. Sundar
  • Published 5 February 2011
  • Political Science
  • Economic and Political Weekly
Based on the memories of elderly Naga and Mizo villagers in north-east India who underwent grouping in the 1950s and 1960s, this article shows how the concept of "success" and "failure" used by studies of grouping is flawed, betraying a bureaucratic calculus. Whatever the overt reasons given for grouping, what underlies it is the assumption that all people in a given area, whether civilian or combatant, are potentially hostile. Grouping is thus an act of war rather than effective counter… 
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