![]() ![]() Most anti-state revolts across the subcontinent have been crushed, demobilized, or contained. Yet by 2020, the state is ascendant in South Asia. In extreme cases, there were fears of partial or total state failure. Both separatist and revolutionary insurgencies presented serious challenges in India Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, rose with frightening speed to challenge a long-complacent Pakistani security establishment Maoist insurgents mobilized against the Nepali government the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE “Tamil Tigers”) carved out a de facto state in northern Sri Lanka and some predicted a rising violent Islamist tide in Bangladesh. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, anti-state rebellions were an endemic feature of South Asia’s political landscape.
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