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Shows how colonial indirect rule and land tenure institutions create state weakness, ethnic inequality and insurgency in India, and around the world.
List of contents
Part I. Theory: 1. Colonial Institutions and Civil War; 2. Legacies of Colonial Indirect Rule: Weak State, Ethnic Inequality and Insurgency; 3. Varieties of Indirect Rule and Causal Pathways to Maoist Insurgency in India; Part II. Qualitative and Quantitative Testing: 4. Qualitative Analysis of Maoist Strategy and Rebel Agency; 5. Quantitative Testing of Effects of British Indirect Rule on Maoist Insurgency; 6. Colonial Choice or Random Contingency? Addressing Selection Bias in British Indirect Rule; 7. Maoist Insurgency in Chhattisgarh: The Raja of Bastar and Tribal Rebellion; 8. Maoist Insurgency in Andhra Pradesh: The Nizam's Shadow on Telangana; Part III. Generalizability: 9. Explaining Partial Success of Maoists in Kerala and Karnataka; 10. Frontiers of Empire: Indirect Rule and Insurgency in Burma and Pakistan; 11. Conclusion: Policy Implications and Future of the Maoist Conflict.
About the author
Shivaji Mukherjee is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. He has published articles in journals including Civil Wars, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Development and Asian Security.
Summary
Mukherjee shows how colonial indirect rule and land tenure create weak state capacity, land inequality and ethnic grievances which have led to Maoist insurgency in India. His research includes archival data, interviews, analysis of Maoist documents, and statistical testing using sub-national datasets, and helps to explain insurgency world-wide.
