Jaideep Saikia: Difference between revisions

He is also the author of the book ''Terror Sans Frontiers: Islamist Militancy in North East India'',<ref>Vision Books, New Delhi, the abridged version can be accessed at: {{cite web |url=http://acdis.illinois.edu/publications/207/publication-TerrorsansFrontiersIslamicMilitancyinNorthEastIndia.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-04-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705081052/http://acdis.illinois.edu/publications/207/publication-TerrorsansFrontiersIslamicMilitancyinNorthEastIndia.html |archivedate=2010-07-05 }} - 3k</ref> which in the words of South Asia observer, [[Stephen Philip Cohen]], is "One of the most important books on the question of insurgency yet to appear..." Jaideep Saikia also is a regular commentator on the [[ULFA]], [[Bangladesh]] and [[Islamist]] extremism in South Asia, with numerous papers and books on the subject, which he has either edited or written. His most recent edited anthology, "Frontier in Flames: North East India in Turmoil"<ref>published by Penguin Books</ref> is a collection of essays by experts on the region. The anthology was released in New Delhi by the celebrated columnist [[B G Verghese]] in February 2008.  In the book, Saikia had not only documented all the Islamist terror organisations that are operating in the region, but was the first to predict the entry of al-Qaeda into the Indian sub-continent.

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