Political Conflict: Impediment in Economic Development and Root Cause of Terrorism in India

Page: 329-332
Shagun Malhotra (Diplomacy, Law and Business, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana)

“Terrorism is intermittently contended to be the result of poverty and impoverished levels of economic development in the nations”. Examining the distribution of terrorist attacks and casualties due to terrorism across the states of India, the research paper states that the terrorism does not solely arise due to low or poor economic development but instead it is infuriated by the unsettled and inadequately managed political clashes/combats. Impoverished states in India are not inevitably much more inclined over terrorism, but states which have distinguished as well as insufficient focus upon the political disputes surely undergoes huge amount of terrorist activities. This study analyses the five reasons for inducement of the political clashes that eventually lead to terrorism in India which are: Ethnic clashes, Communal clashes, existence of scheduled caste and tribes, immense population growth and the concept of the stateless areas.