Assam General Knowledge (GK), for APSC & other Assam Government | Includes solved APSC 2022 & 2020 Papers | Previous years’ questions (1998-2017) | Includes Sheet & Questions for Practice | - Pearson
by Anshuman Gogoi, Madhusmita Phukan
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Insurgency in Assam
Insurgency, literally means a kind of armed rebellion against the established authority. It is a doctrine to capture State power through a combination of armed insurgency, mass mobilization. The insurgent groups feel that their land and territory is under “political and economic occupation”. They, generally try to garner the support of the masses by putting forward arguments about how the majoritarian state has deprived them of their region, economically, socially and politically and thereby try to justify their acts. They often indulge inviolence and plays bargaining games with the authority. They operate within a definite territory and for a definite territory. So, they are not counted under terrorism. Their influence ...
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