Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History, Vol. 13

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FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

On behalf of the Department of History, University of North Bengal, it is our privilege to present to the readers the Volume 13 (2020) of the Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History. The present volume has incorporated research papers covering a wide range of issues and from various sub-disciplines of History. The empirical works dealing with diverse spheres of the mother discipline, viz. nationalism, sub-nationalism, post-modernist views, sports history, women’s history, etc. have enriched its contents. The Volume 13 is being published after all the articles having been refereed, peer reviewed, and critically edited with the ISSN 2229-4880. The Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History is a UGC Approved Journal of Arts and Humanities with Serial No. 42512.

It is our solemn duty to express our deepest gratitude to our Honourable Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Finance Officer for their generous concern on ‘Academic Endeavour’. We are also grateful to our colleagues of the Department of History for their warm encouragement and necessary cooperation for publishing this journal.

We are also thankful to all the contributors for providing valuable research papers. Finally, the officials and the staffs of the North Bengal University Press deserve heartiest thanks for their cooperation in printing the journal within limited span of time.

 

Sudash Lama, Ph.D. (Chief Editor)

Dipsikha Acharya, Ph.D. (Associate Editor)



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    Postcolonial Aporia in South Asia: A Case Study of Civil-Military Relations in Contemporary India
    (University of North Bengal, 2020-03) Dutta, Manas
    In recent time, we have been witnessing that the postcolonial south Asian states have a problem with civilian control over their military while India, as one of the distinct countries in south Asia, proved to be initially successful in maintaining such control since its independence in 1947. The strong democratic institutions, free press, responsible political parties, and the professional military kept India out of the fear of a military coup in the contemporary times. Yet, India has strikingly witnessed an absent dialogue among its stakeholders in matter of civil-military relations that gives birth to several misleading situations recently. Besides, the structure and the nature of civil-military relations have had an adverse impact on the effectiveness of the Indian military. Several crucial features characterized the developing relationship between civilians and the military in postindependent India that remain at the heart of understanding civil-military relations even in contemporary period. Parenthetically India, after having series of external wars within the south Asian regions and internal unrest and resistance, sought to provide a tight bureaucratic control over the military. India’s inherent hierarchical mechanism in the military like Higher Defence Management (HDM), Defence Planning Committee (DPC), the Chief of Staff Committee (CSC) and most recently the Chief of Defence Staff in 2019 (CDS) further obfuscated the need for clear goals of policy implementation, frequently producing discord and tension in civil-military relations in India. Therefore, this essay tries to present thematic overview of Indian civil-military relations over more than seven decades by examining the key characteristics and describe how these characteristics in turn affect, the military’s effectiveness in India and subsequently civilian intervention in this field.