Terrorism, Communalism And Other Challenges To Indian Security

This book examines conceptualisation of Indian security sinceindependence; its evolving concerns and present threats in the context ofnation-in-the making. It discusses threats to political nationalism posed bychauvinism, sub-nationalism, communalism, terrorism and the games that stateslike USA, China and Pakistan play in destabilising the external and the internalenvironment. Internally it attempts acomparison between communalism and terrorism after delineating the approaches tocommunalism and examining the theorisation on causes and structure of terrorism.Hindi cinema is examined with reference to the wayterrorism gets reflected in specific films. Also examined is thelatest shadow that the attack on the Parliament in 2001, the events in Godhraand Gujarat carnage in 2002 cast on the secular, democratic and welfaristproject enshrined in the Constitution.