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Anatomy of Fear:
Essays on India’s Internal Security
However, India’s case is different because it has been able to maintain its sovereignty and integrity despite internal security threats. In the 21st century, India is facing complex issues like relationship between the state and society and the rights of ethnic communities, communal threats, changes in the mode of operations of Indian federation, cast as an endemic source of social and political violence, consensus related to the protection of environment while ensuring sustainable development and source relating to the politics of ultra-radicalism. In Problems of Security in 21st Century: Internal and External Sources of Threats to Society of States, Arun Kumar Banerjee has rightly pointed out that many of the historical and structural asymmetries between the Western nation-states and the post-colonial states in impinging their security perceptions remain mystified within generic conceptual categories derived from the horizon of the European experience. The author finds a direct, positive co-relationship between the dent in the Norwegian agenda and the proliferation of internal sources of threats at different periods to India’s security. A. K. Ramakrishna in his thought-provoking essay, Conceptualising Security, surveys various approaches and concepts of security and essentially argues against holding on to the street-centric, national security paradigm. Harihar Bhattacharya in an essay emphasises upon the political solutions to Indian security problems by closely looking at how some federal democratic solutions to ethno national identity issues have been at work since 1950s in resolving major ethno national conflicts rooted in regions, languages and tribal identities. Shri Ajitava Raychaudhary and Shri Sudeep Sinha in Fiscal Reforms Initiatives in India focus on the present position of fiscal reforms in the context of centre-state financial relations as well as the global context of fiscal reforms, particularly in commodity taxation. They augment the nature of governmental transfers from the Centre to the states based on the recommendations of the Financial Commissions appointed periodically. In The Role of Intelligence Community in India’s National Security, Bhabhuti Bhushan Nandi discusses various facets of intelligence gathering and planning and the functions that are indispensable for an efficient and successful defence of a state. In Caste Violence in India, Debi Chatterjee defines violence in terms of injury, mental or physical, caused by race, ethnicity, religion, gender and caste, while in Communalism in Internal Security and Indian Security, Shibashis Chatterjee and Rumela Sen analyse what communalism can do or has done to India. In Civilisation: The State and Ethnocentricity in Temporary North-Eastern India Sameer Kumar Das discusses the complex relationship between the state, civil society and the rights of ethnic communities. He has explained the importance of civil society in resolving ethnic conflicts of Northeastern states because the role of the Indian state vis-à-vis the civil society of the region has become a subject of discussion in recent years. Apurba Kumar Mukhopadhyay attempts to sketch the post-Independent predicament of communalism in India marked by many twist and turns, and locate the ultra-leftist trend within the broad scenario. The book is a comprehensive collection of research papers by political, economic and international relations experts. The authors have researched in great detail India’s internal security problems and have given their recommendations to overcome them. |
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the present-day world, it has become difficult to preserve the
sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of states
against the threats emanating from external environment. Most of the
developing countries, which have pluralistic societies, are facing
challenges in maintaining their unity and integrity. In majority of the
cases, threats to their security are within from their borders because
of the weak and unstable internal structure.