ABSTRACT

India has been a major victim of terrorism. It has suffered massive terrorist attacks, such as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and has witnessed dramatic terrorist assaults on its political leadership, such as the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the 2001 attack on India’s Parliament. India’s terrorism predicament is exceptional. It is the target not only of a shockingly diverse array of terrorists, including Maoist Naxalites, rebels in its Northeast, Khalistani separatists, insurgents in Kashmir and jihadi militants, but also of the largest campaign of state-sponsored terrorism 1 in the world, orchestrated by its arch-enemy Pakistan.