India – The White Elephant, The land of the largest number of Separatist Movements in The World.
English: Map of the British Indian Empire from Imperial Gazetteer of India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Have you ever questioned why India is spoken positively in Western Media in this last decade. This last decade where the world was once more bi-polar, the Western world looked to the loyal Hindus and extended a hand of friendship very similar to the East India Company.
Beyond the marketing, glam of silos of investments in Delhi & Mumbai the nation is not held together and nor is it stable. With the worlds most poorest and systematic segregation of communities, ethnicities and religions it is far from the secular and democratic utopia it declares itself to be. This is a very schizophrenic nation where the power is held in silos within a selected historic Brahmin & upper caste Hindu strong holds.
Violence against minorities and what these Hindus term the minority commuities continues even today, against Dalits, Muslims, Christians & Sikhs. This is a nation of many but ruled by a few holding the vast majority captive and at gun point. India has much to do if it wishes for progression and equality.
Flag adopted by the Indian National Congress in 1931. First hoisted on 1931-10-31 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There is a little known fact, an unwrit law that if your Dalit or Muslim you will find it 10 times harder to find employment or place to live including rent, it is 10 times harder for Muslim and Dalit children to secure a place in a reputable university.
This is a nation that promotes itself as being modern, progressive but is still very much holding onto it’s colonial past and plagued with traditions and cultures stemming from a prehistoric faith that treats fellow humans as bi-products. An extremely zealot, religious nation where the upper class Hindus see himself closest to God and others as insects that they would see crushed.
Soon after India’s independence it was a given assumption that India, because of its diversities, will not survive as a single state, but will break up into separate states. In the brutal manne rin which Independent India crushed many separtist movements for legitimate nations seeking to reclaim their nations from The British.
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Since India’s independence in 1947 there were many attempts by different communities in India to establish independent countries and this continues to this day. These calls for indpendence are legitimate born out of Indian opression and occupation but subsequent neglect of some once very resource rich and hihgly skilled nations that had fell to the British Raj.
In Kashmir, in north India, there were organizations and underground organizations which demanded first to attach Kashmir to Pakistan and later on started demanding an independent Kashmir state.
In Punjab, to the south of Kashmir, the Sikhs demanded an independent Sikh country to be called Khalistan.
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In north- east India as in Kashmir to this day there are demands for separate states by different groups. North -east India was, during British period, province of Assam. In this region which borders China, there are many communities which are referred to under Indian law as tribes. These tribal people have Chinese appearance and speak in languages from the Sino-Tibetian family. Since India’s independence, many tribal communities in this region, in the beginning with Chinese support, tried to establish independent states apart from India and witnesed very recent just how volatile this reason is. In the 1960s rebellions from Mizoram region even declared independence. The Indian army brutally suppressed these rebellions with great attrocities.
The north east of modern India and South East continue to strive for independence and continue to wage a organised freedom struggle.
Flag of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In south India, before India’s independence there was a demand for an independent Dravidstan for the whole of south India. After India independence, this demand was mild down for autonomous Dravidian states within the Indian union. But the Tamilians who emigrated from Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka demand an independent state in north Sri Lanka and it is presumed they receive lot of support from Indian Tamilians.
India always quick to point the finger at others often forget that it is a damning insult to secular and democratic ideals. Many Westerners are oblivious to the poverty and displacement of wealth / investment in India. India is a white elephant – a facade and continues to be very unstable.
Flag of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With an alignment with USA to contain or harm Chinese interests in Asia pacific and to destabilise Pakistan through Afghanistan. India also gets lost in the glam and marketing in its new found accolades emanating from the West and does not realise just how a volatile game she plays. India is not a stable nation, far from it be this socially or economically and its communal differences can very easily be its downfall.
A rise in Hindu terror groups tareting Muslims, Sikhs & Christians as seen in Gujerat, Punjab and Orissa can stoke the fire that can engulf the nation.
Unable to resolve its issues internally it uses the Hindu right wing organisations to crush dissent from within not realising this self flagellation can cost her daily. Unable to provide for its many homeless and poor and lost in the marekting of shining India and is knowingly being pushed to support an American agenda in Central Asia but also Asia Pacific that will have long term repercussions on its very fragile and volatile federation.
English: Photograph showing cadres of the cadres of the armed separatist group, PREPAK (People’s Revolutionary Party, Kangleipak) of Manipur. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here is a list of just some of these sepratist movements;
1. National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
2. United People’s Democratic Solidarity (UPDS)
3. Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO)
4. Bodo Liberation Tiger Force (BLTF)
5. Dima Halim Daogah (DHD)
6. Karbi National Volunteers (KNV)
7. Rabha National Security Force (RNSF)
8. Koch-Rajbongshi Liberation Organisation (KRLO)
9. Hmar People’s Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
10. Karbi People’s Front (KPF)
11. Tiwa National Revolutionary Force (TNRF)
12. Bircha Commando Force (BCF)
13. Bengali Tiger Force (BTF)
Banner of the UNLF (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
14. Adivasi Security Force (ASF)
15. All Assam Adivasi Suraksha Samiti (AAASS)
16. Gorkha Tiger Force (GTF)
17. Barak Valley Youth Liberation Front (BVYLF)
18. United Liberation Front of Barak Valley
19. United National Liberation Front (UNLF)
20. People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
21. People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)
22. The above mentioned three groups now operate from a unified platform,
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23. the Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF)
24. Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP)
25. Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL)
26. Manipur Liberation Tiger Army (MLTA)
27. Iripak Kanba Lup (IKL)
28. People’s Republican Army (PRA)
29. Kangleipak Kanba Kanglup (KKK)
30. Kangleipak Liberation Organisation (KLO)
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31. Revolutionary Joint Committee (RJC)
32. National Socialist Council of Nagaland — Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
33. People’s United Liberation Front (PULF)
34. Kuki National Army (KNA)
35. Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA)
36. Kuki National Organisation (KNO)
37. Kuki Independent Army (KIA)
Kashmiris dont think of themselves as Indians.English: Location of Jammu and Kashmir in India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
38. Kuki Defence Force (KDF)
39. Kuki International Force (KIF)
40. Kuki National Volunteers (KNV)
41. Kuki Liberation Front (KLF)
42. Kuki Security Force (KSF)
43. Kuki Liberation Army (KLA)
44. Kuki Revolutionary Front (KRF)
45. United Kuki Liberation Front (UKLF)
46. Hmar People’s Convention (HPC)
47. Hmar People’s Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
48. Hmar Revolutionary Front (HRF)
49. Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA)
50. Zomi Revolutionary Volunteers (ZRV)
51. Indigenous People’s Revolutionary Alliance(IRPA)
52. Kom Rem People’s Convention (KRPC)
53. Chin Kuki Revolutionary Front (CKRF)
54. Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC)
55. Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC)
56. People’s Liberation Front of Meghalaya (PLF-M)
57. Hajong United Liberation Army (HULA)
58. National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) – NSCN(IM)
59. National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) – NSCN (K)
60. Naga National Council (Adino) – NNC (Adino)
61. Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)
62. Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF)
63. International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)
64. Khalistan Commando Force (KCF)
65. All-India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF)
66. Bhindrawala Tigers Force of Khalistan (BTFK)
67. Khalistan Liberation Army (KLA)
68. Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF)
69. Khalistan Armed Force (KAF)
70. Dashmesh Regiment
71. Khalistan Liberation Organisation (KLO)
72. Khalistan National Army (KNA)
73. National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)
74. All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)
75. Tripura Liberation Organisation Front (TLOF)
76. United Bengali Liberation Front (UBLF)
77. Tripura Tribal Volunteer Force (TTVF)
78. Tripura Armed Tribal Commando Force (TATCF)
79. Tripura Tribal Democratic Force (TTDF)
80. Tripura Tribal Youth Force (TTYF)
81. Tripura Liberation Force (TLF)
82. Tripura Defence Force (TDF)
83. All Tripura Volunteer Force (ATVF)
84. Tribal Commando Force (TCF)
85. Tripura Tribal Youth Force (TTYF)
86. All Tripura Bharat Suraksha Force (ATBSF)
87. Tripura Tribal Action Committee Force (TTACF) Socialist Democratic
88. Front of Tripura (SDFT)
89. All Tripura National Force (ATNF)
90. Tripura Tribal Sengkrak Force (TTSF)
91. Tiger Commando Force (TCF)
92. Tripura Mukti Police (TMP)
93. Tripura Rajya Raksha Bahini (TRRB)
94. Tripura State Volunteers (TSV)
95. Tripura National Democratic Tribal Force (TNDTF)
96. National Militia of Tripura (NMT)
97. All Tripura Bengali Regiment (ATBR)
98. Bangla Mukti Sena (BMS)
99. All Tripura Liberation Organisation (ATLO)
100. Tripura National Army (TNA)
101. Tripura State Volunteers (TSV)
102. Borok National Council of Tripura (BNCT)
103. Mizoram
104. Bru National Liberation Front
105. Hmar People’s Convention- Democracy (HPC-D)
106. Arunachal Pradesh
107. Arunachal Dragon Force (ADF)
108. Left-wing Extremist groups
109. People’s Guerrilla Army
110. People’s War Group
111. Maoist Communist Centre
112. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
113. Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Janashakti Other Extremist Groups
114. Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT)
very Nice info, Khalistan Zindabad,
Most of the organisation you mention are wanted separte state not country.Since independence your jehadi brothers dream to break india but still india united and even other state(sikkim) join india. Look at your country remembar bangladesh(east pakistan).There many movement are happening pakistan sindudesh,balocistan etc.Amercia bombing your country,you kill each other in the name of shia sunni etc. So concentrate your country and try to solve your rather than focusing india.But i know jehadi like you never change.
Separate “state” and not “country”–whats the difference?
Raj name me a dozen sepratist movements from Pakistan – let me make it easy for you name me only 6.
Pakistan had no problems on the 8th November 2001, Pakistan’s economy was thriving and had greatest cloud “across” Asia.
Pakistans problems have been “manufactured” by India and yes also.America and Israel and there lies the fundamental difference to India. Your sepratist movements are real, genetic, homegrown and have existed since 1948.
India’s foreign policy is one of hostility and monopoly and I will write this on the wall you will inevitably crack and break while Pakistan will.remain intact. Pakistanis are a united people while Indians are fragmented across religion, culture, ethnicity, language, economy and geography.
We have always been a nation throughout our history held together by our strategic position and interaction with many other empires/nation and our legacy is testimony all over India. Even if your kind bury the rich vibrant Islamic golden history under rubble – you will never wipe out our legacy it will be visible in your culture, language, architecture, the foods you eat reminding you who WE are. Your kind has a nation for the first time but a continent can only exist under the garb of a nation for so long. Even if you broke us we will exist as part of many other empires BUT we will never BE called India as this is engrained and inherent in the history of our region but you are more likely to be called Pakistan or what ever be the name of the heir to the Mughal Empire and every great empire that came from Khorasan all the way to The Indus.
Raj name me a dozen sepratist movements from Pakistan – let me make it easy for you name me only 6.
Pakistan had no problems on the 8th November 2001, Pakistan’s economy was thriving and had greatest cloud “across” Asia.
Pakistans problems have been “manufactured” by India and yes also.America and Israel and there lies the fundamental difference to India. Your sepratist movements are real, genetic, homegrown and have existed since 1948.
India’s foreign policy is one of hostility and monopoly and I will write this on the wall you will inevitably crack and break while Pakistan will.remain intact. Pakistanis are a united people while Indians are fragmented across religion, culture, ethnicity, language, economy and geography.
We have always been a nation throughout our history held together by our strategic position and interaction with many other empires/nation and our legacy is testimony all over India. Even if you r kind bury the rich vibrant Islamic golden history under rubble – you will never wipe out our legacy it will be visible in your culture, language, architecture, the foods you eat reminding you who WE are. Your kind has a nation for the first time but a continent can only exist under the garb of a nation for so long. Even if you broke us we will exist as part of many other empires BUT we will never BE called India as this is engrained and inherent in the history of our region but you are more likely to be called Pakistan or what ever be the name of the heir to the Mughal Empire and every great empire that came from Khorasan all the way to The Indus.
Please do remove double posts, you dont need me to tell you – thanks.
It is clut not cloud in the first paragraph.
Writer can add few more movements in the List. This quite is fair in a democratic country. Most of these movements are not for a separate state or rule. Some of them, you have listed are only in paper. i.e movement for khalistan.
There are only two movement are worry some for us 1. Naxilite and other in kashmir. We have the unity in diversity and it reflect in our culture, religion as well in our constitution. We love to argument and debate so movements will flourish and diminish in India without making any harm to soul.
As a indian, I am more worried about my neighbor Pakistan, where we have few separatist movements. There provinces Bloochistan want to separate and Sindhi always complain as step brother attitude from center government. Pakistan economy is already doomed and state is at the verge of ‘failed’ and most important country does not have the culture and attitude of face such problem. This country was divided in 1971 and bangla desh was formed. There won’t be any surprise for us, if we wee an another country in next few years with the name is ‘BLOOCHISTAN’.
Let us do the math :
India :
1.has “seperatist” movement, but not even a single state has ever seperated from India since its creation.
2.India has fought a war with China in 1962 to defend its territories. Despite defeat, the heads of Indian still stand high as it fought for land with blood.
Pakistan :
1.attempts to take over
Junagadh ended in a tight slap on your faces.
2.Attempts to take over Kashmir failed, with majority of the state including the fertile part under Indian control.
3.If India fought to defend her territories, Pakistan in 1963 cowardly just handed over 2000 sq miles of territories to China.
4. Northwest frontier is not under Pakistan control.
5. America has a free hand to bomb Pakistani territories, while taking resources from Pakistan !
6. The crowning glory of defeat is of course Bangladesh. The biggest defeat by any country after WW2, the most foolish conflict, as half of Pakistan broke away just becasue of a languange !
So do the math : India 0 states seperated Pakistan 1. Even a 2 year old can figure who stands better !
Let us see.
Nepal separated and became independent
Tibet separated and joined China
Gilgit and Baltistan revolted from Delhi and is a province of Pakistan
Azad Kashmir was part of Occupied Kashmir and is no longer so
Half of Kashmir was thus liverated. The other half remains occupied and bogs down half the Bharati armed forces
Junagarh and Manvadar revolted and signed accession papers with Pakistan–are occupied
Bangladesh is today’s the biggest threat to Bhaarat and Manmohan said that all Bangladeshis hate Bharat–so much for the crowning achivement
Raj,
Your post sound bitter :) enjoying it – please don’t hide from the reality of modern India and a plethora of separatist movements.
Your pseudonym Tiwari mentioned only 2 movements worry you, well put it into context of a domino effect, when one falls all will fall.
What ever is unatural and unholy must come to an end.
Yes Bangladesh was created because if you look at the geography of Bangladesh it “had” to exist as a separate autonomous nation, it was the right and natural thing to happen unfortuantely instigated and incited by Indian sponsored terror.
Similarly look at the geography of Assam and The Red Corridor, of Himanchal / Arunchal Pardesh. Look at the geography of Kashmir and for that matter even Punjab, it will be the natural thing for autonomous nations to emerge.
When that happens look at the rest of the legacy of the British Empire known as India and you will soon see hisotry resurface and Tamil Lands, Andhra Pardesh etc etc etc all asking for separation and the dirty Brahmons and the xenophobe elitist Hindu zealots will be broughyt back to where they crawled out from along the Ganges.
I hope you can reflect on it and understand the separatist movements you mention in Pakistan are not “real” but “manufactured”. What is manufactured can easily be switched off but what is real and a true ideology will never be switched off but continue to simmer and boil.
Unstable India – India under seige
The war in Afghanistan is ending and the world needs to stop looking at India through rose tinted glasses and accept that India has immense problems. These problems come from a disjointed scoiety will “never” make India capable of containing China but will accelerate her fragmentation into semi autonomous states.
It is a known fact that India has enjoyed some overwhelmingly positive marketing in the decade long war in Afghanistan. The Americans needed an ally to contain China and balance the Pakistani influence across the region. India was never a rising economy before 9 11 and never a likely partner for the USA. As a South Asian giant, yes it has the potential to become a power but in reality it remains a fragmented society mirred with communal violence, largst number of separtist movements, poverty stricken regions way below Sub Saharan Africa, diproportionate distribution of wealth.
America and Europe opened its doors to Indian trade reducing levvies on trade and encouraging their investors to look at India. This was an attempt to improve Indian economy and position in the world to then allow it to be marketed in positive light.
The war is coming to an end and India has not delivered a balkanised Pakistan and nor has it even begun to contain China’s rise. Nor has India improved the lives of its billion plus through distributing its wealth equally.
If ever there was a worry of Nuclear arsenal going into the wrong hands it was in India. The world must recognise a real and crdible risk in India and her questionable strategy in securing her nukes. The daily mail spent some time investigating this very strategy and wrote a very detailed article.
Please read;
http://dailymailnews.com/dmsp0204/18-08.htm
More importantly here is a nation that does not have control over 26 out of 28 states. The Naxal threat to Indian sovereignty is real and credible, India has failed to win over the Naxalites and has failed to curb the insurgency.
In 2008, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the Naxalite movement as “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country”. Yet, the conflict is not just a security challenge; it is also a developmental challenge.
In 2012 we can see just how fragile the Indian Red Corridor is with the recent violence in Assam that can easily spread across the red corridor like wild fire.
In Assam hundreds and thousands displaced and homeless. India can not hide from it’s failings by constantly pointing the finger at Pakistan – The boy who always cries wolf will sooner or later have to face his darkest fear alone.
The boldness of the Naxalites is increasing and the tremors felt all the way down to Maharashtra, where March this year a bomb blast killed 15 Indian policemen.
The attack was blamed on Maoist rebels, who operate in the area as well as several other Indian states up the red corridor with little resistance from Indian Police and Paramilitary.
India’s Maoist insurgency began in West Bengal state in the late 1960s and has become, according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the country’s “greatest internal security challenge”.
The Maoists control large areas of several states in a “red corridor” constituting 40% of the Indian sub continent stretching from the north-east to central India.
They say they are fighting for communist rule and greater rights for tribal people and the rural poor. India has been incompetent and incapable of crushing this insurgency nor has it been able to win the people of this region over.
USA was looking to India to contain China but it can not even contain its own home grown insurgency that is extending its sphere of influence down the red corridor. The South Western Regional Bureau (SWRB) of the Naxal movement has decided to extend its activities from Western Ghats to the Eastern Ghats through Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, thus expanding the Red Corridor.
In recent months India has increased incursions into Naxalite territory and have marketed this as a success suggesting huge Naxalite losses. While at the same time poverty continues across the red corridor and youth continue to be disengaged from mainstream India. The Naxalite threat is far from over and continues to be a major bone of contention with Shining India.
When placed into perspective with Kashmiri truggle, Punjab, Assam and the disenfranchised Muslims inside India demonised and persecuted it paints a gloomy picture for India.
It is questionable just how unified the Indian federal states are with New Delhi and as a society how would they ever conceive pooling together should India embolden itself and discuss conflict with her Western or Northern neighbours.
These movements are real and amny across India and can topple the Indian federation like a domino effect very easily without effort from foreign states.
For the international commuity it should be a major worry that Indian nukes are scatterd across the Red Corridor out of Pakistan’s reach but unfortunately deep in the lions den.
It is about time the West’s romance with India ends and serious questions are asked on the future stability and security of the Indian Federation.
India needs to get her head out of the clouds and stop finger pointing Pakistan without any credibility and show real initiative if she wishes to be part of the post Afghanistan war era or risk isolation which can see her imploding. If she choses conflict with Pakistan or China she risks all, so it is high time she becomes a sensible and responsible broker of peace.