Overview
- Analyses the impact of sociological and technological transformations on extremist groups
- Throws light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia
- Offers a comprehensive analysis of new extremist movements
Part of the book series: Politics of South Asia (POSAS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Religious extremism in South Asia
- Religious conflict and transformation in colonial India
- ISIS, terrorism and social media in Bangladesh
- BJP, social media and religious minorities in India
- Religious extremism in Kashmir
- Muslims and Hindu nationalism in India
- Counterterrorism laws in Pakistan
- Anti terror state policies in Pakistan
- Islamisation and religious extremism
- Gender, and terrorism in Pakistan
- Non-state movements against violent religious extremism
- Terrorism, Colonial Continuities and Modern Paradoxes
- Social Media and Hindu Extremism in India
- Religious Pluralism and Hindu Nationalist Supremacy
- Political Conflict in Jammu & Kashmir
- Daesh’s Recruitment and Bangladesh
- Religious Extremism and Neo‐nationalism in Sri Lanka
- Buddhist-Muslim Relations and Co-existence
- Religious Fanaticism in British India
- Bangladesh and Al Qaeda
About this book
This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large. The book is distinctive in-so-far as it reexamines conventional wisdom held about religious extremism in South Asia and departs from the literature which centres its analyses on Islamic militancy based on the questions and assumptions of the West’s ‘war on terror’. This volume also offers a comprehensive analysis of new extremist movements and how their emergence and success places existing theoretical frameworks in the study of religious extremism into question. It further examines topical issues including the study of social media and its impact on the evolution and operation of violent extremism. The book also analyses grassroots and innovative non-state initiatives aimed to counter extremist ideologies. Through case studies focusing on Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this collection examines extremist materials, methods of political mobilisation and recruitment processes and maps the interconnected nature of sociological change with the ideological transformations of extremist movements.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Imran Ahmed is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
Zahid Shahab Ahmed is Research Fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University (Australia).
Howard Brasted is Emeritus Professor of History and Islamic Studies at the University of New England (Australia).
Shahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor in Middle East and Central Asian politics at Deakin University (Australia).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion, Extremism and Violence in South Asia
Editors: Imran Ahmed, Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Howard Brasted, Shahram Akbarzadeh
Series Title: Politics of South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6847-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6846-3Published: 05 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6849-4Published: 06 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6847-0Published: 04 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-8345
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8353
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 240
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Terrorism and Political Violence, Religion and Society, Violence and Crime, Politics and Religion