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The Dialectic of Terrorism in India since 2001: Foreign Meddling, Islamists and Hindu Nationalists

Since 2001, India has experienced a series of attacks and, as a result, ranks among the countries most affected by terrorism. The Indian authorities initially attributed these acts of violence to Pakistani Islamist groups with ties, in some cases, to their country’s military intelligence agency. They then admitted that Indian Muslims – whether acting alone or in contact with foreign groups – were increasingly involved in these terrorist actions. After each attack, the police thus carried out mass arrests of young Muslims, above all those who were or had been members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Yet only a few activists from this union had embraced the armed jihadist cause, reacting to the movement that led to the demolition of the Ayodhya mosque (1992), on the one hand, and the Gujarat pogroms (2002), on the other. In keeping with a long-standing mimetic tradition within the Hindu nationalist movement, Hindu nationalist groups have responded to this Indian-origin Muslim terrorism by organizing attacks similar to those of the Muslims. ■