The Sikh separatist insurgency in India : political leadership and ethonationalist movements / Jugdep S. Chima.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Paul Wallace -- Pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. "Patterns of Political Leadership" and Ethnonationalist Insurgency -- 2. Sikh Ethnic Identity and Early Post-Independence Politics in Punjab -- Pt. 2. The Emergence of the Sikh Ethnonationalist Movement (1978-1984) -- 3. Beginnings of Sikh Extremism - 1978-81 -- 4. Emergence of Ethnonationalist Violence - 1981 to 1983 -- 5. Agitation, Ethnic Insurgency, and the Road to Operation Bluestar - 1983 to 1984 -- Pt. 3. The Sustenance of the Sikh Ethnonationalist Movement (1984-1992) -- 6. Failed Political Compromises and Re-marginalizaion of Sikh Moderates (1984-1992) -- 7. Reorganization of the Militants and the Armed Struggle for Khalistan (1986-1988) -- 8. The Divided State and Electoral Victory of the Extremists (1988-1990) -- 9. Escalating Factionalism and Internecine Violence within the Separatist Movement (1990-1992) -- Pt. 4. The Demise of the Sikh Ethnonationalist Movement (1992-1997) -- 10. The Crushing of the Violent Sikh Ethnonationalist Movement by the Unified State (1992-1993) -- 11. The Return of Normalcy to Punjab and Sikh Politics (1993-1997) -- Pt. 5. Conclusion -- 12. "Patterns of Political Leadership" and Ethnonationalist Insurgency in a Comparative Perspective.

"The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on patterns of political leadership, a previously unexplored variable. It describes in detail the events which led to the emergence of the Punjab crisis, the various means through which the movement was sustained, and the changing nature of political leadership and courses of military action which resulted in its decline in the mid-1990s."--BOOK JACKET.