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Mukherjee, Shivaji

Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India/ By Shivaji Mukherjee - New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 392P;, xviii, 23cm.

CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements

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 Casual Pathway 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.
Includes Bibliography and Index.

ISBN: 9781009449830

Dewey Class. No.: 355.1180954 / MUK