India Study Group

Faiths Clash, Displacing Thousands In East India

Source NEW DELHI — At least 3,000 people, most of them Christians, are living in government-run relief camps after days of Christian-versus-Hindu violence in eastern India, government officials said. The government said that many people were also living in the jungle without any shelter or security because of the tensions, which erupted in violence after a Hindu [...]

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‘Chinese success in Olympics will be our success’

Source August 07, 2008 On Monday, August 4, when 16 border police guards of China’s ministry of public security were killed and many others injured when two unidentified terrorists attacked their barracks near Kashgar in the Xinjiang province of China, B Raman got a telephone call in Chennai from a Chinese think-tank [...]

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China is better becoz it has no caste system

by Kumar on Feb 24, 2008 07:08 AM Caste system is killing India more so the states of UP and Bihar. It is the fundamental reason for backwardness of these states. The south Indian states and even Gujarat and Maharashtra to some extent have weakened the evil caste system and built better societies. The question [...]

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Incomplete List of Major Domestic Conflicts in India Since 1993

On March 12, 1993, Bombay (Mumbai) bombings resulted in over 250 civilian fatalities and 700 injuries. (Source) On March 22, 1997, 7 Kashmiri Pandits were killed in Sangrampora village in the Budgam district. In January 1998, 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by insurgents in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir in . [...]

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List of Terrorist, Insurgent and Extremist Groups in India

Assam (Total of 36) United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) Bodo Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF) Dima Halim Daogah (DHD) Karbi National Volunteers (KNV) Rabha National Security Force (RNSF) Koch-Rajbongshi Liberation Organisation (KRLO) Hmar People’s Convention- Democracy (HPC-D) Karbi People’s Front (KPF) Tiwa National Revolutionary Force (TNRF) Bircha Commando [...]

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India among most terror nations (by Global Terrorism Indicator)

Global Terrorism Indicator (most recent) by country Source

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