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
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