A Radiography of the Security Problems in the Indian Subcontinent, from the Perspective of the Recent History

Abstract

The authors approach the security issue in the Indian Subcontinent from the perspective of developments and mutations caused by separatist tendencies in various regions, many of them having ethnic or religious causality, which mainly emerged after the end of British colonialism. The different mindsets, cultures and beliefs that characterize the population of the subcontinent have been perpetual sources of tensions that have often degenerated into major conflicts, if we refer only to the old and eternal rivalries in the regions of Jammu, Punjab or Kashmir (on the border between India and Pakistan), the conflict in Assam (on the other side of India, on the border with Bangladesh and Myanmar), tensions in the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, or insurgent movements in the Chittagong region of Bangladesh (on the border with Myanmar and India) . Thus, all of these elements created a favorable framework for the emergence and manifestation of terrorist groups, indigenous or based in neighboring states, which manifested themselves virulently, through bloody terrorist attacks, against state authorities, invoking the legitimate representation of the great mass of the population and also the process of establishing the perceptions of the Islamic State and Sharia law in the subcontinent. The countries of the Indian Subcontinent are still facing a particular security issue, which makes the region a source of instability with potential for diffusion in the vicinity.

Keywords

• terrorism
• separatism
• ethnic
• religious
• globalization
• crime
• migration
• threat
• security