ABSTRACT
A - very - brief synopsis of some of these threats for non-Indian readers would include:
(i) Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka as sources of terrorist infiltration and Idestabilisation';
(ii) separatist movements, suspected of being supported by lexternal' powers like those mentioned above, in Kashmir and Punjab;
(iii) INaxalite' or other indigenous resistance movements especially in north-eastern states (e.g. AssamtBihar, Manipur)
where direct military rule by India has been in force; (iv) internal conflicts between religious (Hindu-Muslim-Sikh), caste
or ethnic groups.
