عنوان

From the Defense of the Nation to Aid to the Civil :

شماره

LA114675

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

From the Defense of the Nation to Aid to the Civil :

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

The Army in Contemporary India

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sumit Ganguly

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Unlike many professional armies in the developing world the Indian Army has shown little or no interest in political involvement. During British colonial rule the officers and the men of the army were socialized into accepting the notion of political neutrality. Independent India's politicians, most notably Jawaharlal Nehru, carefully reinforced this tradition. In the past few decades several developments have threatened this Nehruvian legacy. Increasing ethnolinguistic violence coupled with the venality of local police forces have led to increasing reliance on the Army to maintain civil order. Its tactics and strategy are designed to fight organized forces not urban mobs or elusive civilian terrorists. More importantly, in an ethnically plural state like India, repeated use of the Army to quell communal violence threatens to politicize the Army. Inordinate reliance on the Army to maintain civil order may also help erode its long-standing tradition of political neutrality. When the Army begins to assume duties normally restricted to the civil bureaucracy the temptation to intervene in politics increases dramatically.

تاريخ نشر

1991

توصيف ظاهري

11-26

عنوان

Journal of Asian and African Studies

شماره جلد

26/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5217

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sumit Ganguly

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852191X00020

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y