Mirroring its British masters: state and outsourced terrorism against the Maoist insurgency

Felipe Costa Lima

doi:10.22456/2178-8839.116728

Autores/as

Felipe Costa Lima University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA)/PhD candidate in International Law; PUC Minas/PhD candidate in International Relations (thesis co-tutelage) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6390-3950

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.116728

Palabras clave:

State terrorism, Outsourced terrorism, Maoist insurgency

Resumen

The Indian state has been adopting controversial policies for countering the Maoist insurgency. Even worse, this behaviour seems to mirror British
colonial attitudes against India’s population at some level. Consequently, this article attempts to understand this probable ‘paradoxical’ conduct. With
the support of the post-structuralist theory, I discuss state and outsourced terrorist practices of the Indian state apparatus against this insurgency. To
reach this goal, first, I try to explicate the concept of state terrorism and its application in India. Then, I analyse the historical development of the
Maoist movement and India’s concrete policies of state and outsourced terrorism against this counter-hegemonic movement. I believe the British Raj’s
colonial practices have had a deep dialectical influence on India’s state apparatus and major political parties to date. So, this inquiry may clarify the
persistence of colonial practices within India.

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Biografía del autor/a

Felipe Costa Lima, University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA)/PhD candidate in International Law; PUC Minas/PhD candidate in International Relations (thesis co-tutelage)

Felipe Costa Lima is a lawyer, and a PhD candidate in International Law at the University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA), France, as well as in International Relations at PUC Minas, Brazil (CAPES scholarship) (thesis co-tutelage). He does research based on reflexive theories, such as critical theory and decoloniality, focusing on topics like neoliberalism, human rights, and comparative constitutional law, mainly concerning India, Russia and Latin America. He is also an academic mentor and research project coordinator for the International Law without Borders (DIsF, in Portuguese) portal, where he coordinates the integrative project ‘Human Rights are not yet universal: the contributions from other epistemologies to a more ‘human’ human rights’.

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