Civil wars in South Asia : state, sovereignty, development / edited by Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : sovereignty, development and civil war / Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar -- Contextualizing civil wars in South Asia / Nandini Sundar -- Sri Lanka : military fiscalism and the politics of market reform at a time of civil war / Rajesh Venugopal -- The transnational political economy of civil war in Afghanistan / Alessandro Monsutti -- Aid and violence : development, insurgency and social transformation in Nepal / Antonio Donini and Jeevan Raj Sharma -- Civil war or genocide? : Britain and the secession of east Pakistan in 1971 / Anthony Dirk Moses -- The rise of jihadi militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas / Haris Gazdar, Yasser Kureshi and Asad Sayeed -- Routine emergencies : India's armed forces special powers act / Sanjib Baruah -- Local agitations in a globalized context : a case study of Shopian and Bomai / Gowhar Ashraf Fazili -- Articulating grievance in southeast Myanmar / Stephen Campbell -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.

This book demonstrates the importance of South Asia as a region to deepening the study of civil wars and armed conflicts and, simultaneously, illustrates how civil wars open up questions of sovereignty, citizenship and state contours. By engaging these broader theoretical debates, in a field largely dominated by security studies and comparative politics, it contributes to the study of civil wars, political sociology, anthropology and political theory.