Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia This book provides a micro-historical analysis of the emergence and con- temporary dynamics of recent ethnic subnationalist insurgencies in South Asia. Using comparative case studies, it discusses the causes of each insurgency, ana- lyses the trajectory and dynamics of each, including attempts at resolution, and highlights the wider theories of ethnonationalist insurgency. Bringing together an international group of contributors, the book covers insurgencies in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. It questions why ethnic subnationalist insurgencies occurred at particular points in time and not at others, and explores the comparative trajectories of these movements. The book goes on to discern reappearing patterns of conflict escalation/de-escalation through the method of comparative process- tracing. It argues that while identity is a necessary factor for insurgency, it is not a sufficient one. Instead, ethnic mobilization and insurgency only emerge when it is activated by tension emerg- ing from political competition between ethnic and central state elites. These political dynamics, when combined with favorable socio-economic conditions, make the ethnic masses primed to accept the often symbolically rich appeals from their leaders to mobilize against the central state. Providing an important study on ethnonationalist insurgencies in South Asia, the book will be of interest to those working in the fields of South Asian Politics, Security Studies and Ethnic Conflict. Jugdep S. Chima is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hiram College, Ohio, USA. He was previously a Lecturer of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Associate Editor for South Asia at Asian Survey at the same institution. He is author of The Sikh Separatist Insur- gency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements (2010). 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