Homegrown Islamic Terrorism: A Case Study of India
Abstract
This study investigates explanations behind the rise of Homegrown Islamic Terrorism (HIT) in India. It questions the externalizing discourse of the security literature and locates reasons for HIT in domestic political events, guided by a Critical Terrorism Studies approach. To explore the emergence of HIT, this study focuses on a parallel trend in Indian politics- the rise of right-wing Hindu nationalism or the Hindutva movement and its targeting of the Muslim minority. The research question guiding this study is: How can the emergence of homegrown Islamic terrorism in India be explained as a consequence of political Hindutva? Using the methodology of process-tracing, this study establishes a positive relationship between Hindutva and HIT, operationalized through a mechanism of communal politics and Hindu-Muslim riots.
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Keywords
Political Science, Political Science--International Law and Relations
Citation
Panwar, N. (2017). Homegrown Islamic Terrorism: A Case Study of India (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26377