Political violence has remained an integral part of South Asian society for decades. The region has witnessed and continued to encounter violence for achieving

This volume explores the sources and manifestations of political violence in South and Southeast Asia and the myriad roles that it plays in everyday life and as

In Ordering Violence, Paul Staniland advances a broad approach to armed politics—bringing together governments, insurgents, militias, and armed political part

The radical act of suicide protest is undertaken by social movement participants in order to demand a particular previously articulated political outcome. This

Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonvi