Insurgencies in North-East India: Moving Towards Resolution aims at creating an awareness of the current status of this national problem in parliamentarians, officers and officials of the Government of India, and the residents of the North-Eastern (NE) States. The author, combining extensive practical experience in counter insurgency operations with research and scholarship, consider the NE insurgencies within the larger context of our Constitution. Thereafter he focuses his enquiry progressively from our north-eastern region to an examination of the insurgencies Nagaland, Manipur and Assam, and then critical assesses the employment of security forces in counter insurgency (COIN) operations. He concludes with recommendations for the way ahead.
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Gautam Das was in the Indian Army from 1968 to 1991, and was awarded the Sword-of-Honour for being the Best All - Round Cadet and the President's Gold Medal for being First in Order of Merit of his batch. He has also served on the General Staff of HQ Eastern Command at Fort William, Kolkata, where he dealt with the insurgencies and the political situations of the affected North Eastern states.