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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ; and political assassination; suicide attacks of

life expectancy rates

literacy rates

Lockheed Corporation

Lodhi, Maleeha

London School of Economics

Louis XVI (king of France)

Lucknow, India

McGee, Jim

Maharashtra, India

Mahendra (king of Nepal)

Mahmudabad, India

Mahule, S. M.

Malaysia

Mandal Commission report

Man Who Kept the Crows

Margaret Theresa, Sister

Marwah, Subodh

Marxism

Massoud, Ahmed Shah

Mathura, India

Mehta, Harshad

Mehta, Jagat

Mehta, Rama

middle classes; and caste conflict ; and economic reform ; in India ; and Kashmiri separatism; Nehruvian state and ; in Pakistan; in Sri Lanka

Middle East

Mirza, Abbas H.

Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM, Pakistan)

Mohammed, Jan

Moheshkhali Island

Morgenthau, Robert

Mothers’ Front (Sri Lanka)

Mountbatten, Lord Louis

Mujib, Sheikh

multinational corporations

Munir, Syed.

murder, adultery and. See
also
assassinations, political; death squads

Muslim League

Muslims; affirmative action programs for; American; and British colonial rule; in Kashmir ; in Pakistani government; population in India; in Soviet Union. See
also
Hindu-Muslim conflict; Islam; Islamic radicals

Muslim United Front

Nadvi, Shah Syed Fazal-ur-Rahman Waizi

Naipaul. S.

Najibullah

Narang, Surjeet Singh

Narayan (Hindu preacher)

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

nationalism; Afghani ; Hindu; Indian; Pakistani; Sinhalese; Sri Lankan

Naxalites

Nehru, Jawaharlal; and democracy ; and “mixed” socialism ; political legacy of ; as prime minister ; and religious conflict ; and Tribhuvan of Nepal

Nepal; class conflict in; corruption in government; democracy movement ; monarchy in ;
panchayat

Nepal
(cont.)
system; poverty in

Nepali Congress party

nepotism

New Delhi, India: anti-Sikh riots in

; cable television in; caste riots of 1990; rural migration to ; stone quarries newspapers

Newstrack

New York Times

nonaligned movement

Northwest Frontier, Pakistan

nuclear weapons; Pakistan and

Oldenburg, Philip

Pakistan; in Afghanistan war ; Bangladeshi independence from; BCCI in; Benazir Bhutto as prime minister of ; and capitalism; cold war and; conspiracy theories in ; corruption in government; democracy in ; and economic reform ; economy ; elections ; feudalism in ; hostility to India; independence; Islamic radicals in; Islam in politics of; and Kashmir rebellion ; martial law under Zia ul-Haq; middle class in; military coups in ; nationalism; Nehruvian state in; and nuclear weapons; political violence in; poverty in; public-sector enterprises; and Rushdie edict; Sind guerrilla movement; Soviet Union and; tribalism in ; U.S. military aid to
;
wars with India; World Bank and; Zia ul-Haq crash and ; Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as prime minister of

Pakistan air force

Pakistan army; Benazir Bhutto and ; military rule; U.S. arms supplies to ; and Zia ul-Haq crash

Pakistan Criminal Investigative Agency (CIA)

Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI): in Afghanistan war ; U.S. military assistance to ; and Zia ul-Haq crash

Pakistan People’s Party

Pak One crash

Partition

Party of God. See Hizbollah

Pashtun Afghanis

Paswan, Ram

Patwari, Anil Kumar

People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA)

People’s Liberation Front (JVP, Sri Lanka): economic reforms and ; government death-squad attacks on; guerrilla warfare campaign ; Marxist ideology

Pepsico

Peshawar, Pakistan

political parties: banned in Nepal ; criminal gangs and ; guerrilla movements as

politicians; and caste conflict ; corruption among ; and democracy; and economic reforms ; Kashmiri; and religious conflict.
See also
assassinations, political

Ponnambalam, Satchi

Popal, M. Akbar

population growth

Pound, Ezra

poverty: in Bangladesh; BCCI and; caste system and; communism and; development programs and; economic reform and; in India ; in Nepal; in Pakistan; in Sri Lanka

Prabhakaran, Villaphallai

Prakash, Om

Prashad, Ram

Pratap, Anita

Premadasa, Ranasinghe: assassination of ; and death squads

Price Waterhouse

private property rights

privatization

public-sector employment

Punjab, India; counterinsurgency campaign in ; Pakistan and; Rajiv Gandhi and; separatist guerrilla movement in ; Sikh assassins in

Quayle, Dan

Quayle, Marilyn

Qutubuddin Aibak

racism

Rahman, Abdul

railroads

Rajasthan, India

Rajgopal, P. R.

Rajiv (repo man)

Ram, Mohan

Ram, N.

Ramayana

Ramesh, N.

Ranatunge, Cyril

Rao, N. T. Rama

Rao. Narasimha; and economic reform; elected prime minister; and religious conflict

Raphel, Amoid

Rashid, Ahmed

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Reagan, Ronald

Reagan administration

Reagan Doctrine

ul-Rehman, Mir

Reliance Industries

religious conflict; Partition riots; in politics . See also Hindu-Muslim conflict

Revelle, Oliver

Rising Nepal

Ron (driver)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rushdie, Salman; Iranian death edict against

Samarweera, Mangala

Santosh (driver)

Satanic Verses
(Rushdie)

sati

Saudi Arabia

Saxena, G. N.

Schama, Simon

secularism: Afghani Muslims and ; India and ; Kashmiri Muslims and

self-immolations

Shah, G. M.

Shah, Zahir

Shaheed-ul-Islam

Sharif, Nawaz

Sharma, H. N.

Shekhar, Chandra

Shia (Shiite) Muslims: Afghani ; Pakistani

Shourie, Arun

Shroff, Amir

Shultz, George P.

Sikhs; government counterinsurgency campaign against ; mob violence against ; political assassinations by ; Punjabi separatist insurgency ; Rajiv Gandhi and

Sind Province, Pakistan; criminal mafias in; feudalism in; guerrilla insurgency in

Singapore

Singh, Beant

Singh, Bhajan

Singh, Birendra

Singh, Dilbur

Singh, Madan

Singh, Manmohan

Singh, Pooran

Singh, Ramesh

Singh, Ranjit

Singh, Satwant

Singh, Shivaji

Singh, Sultan

Singh, Than

Singh, Vishwanath Pratap

Sinhalese: death-squad attacks on ; economic reforms and ; ethnic warfare with Tamils ; nationalism; People’s Liberation Front faction of

60 Minutes

socialism: Afghani revolution and; failures of; India and; “mixed” socialist ideology; Nehru and; Nepal and ; “socialist gravy train”; Sri Lanka and; Tamil rebels and; transition from

Soli, Chandra Mohan

Somalia

Soviet Union; Afghanistan, invasion of; in Afghanistan war; Afghanistan war, CIA-Pakistani guerrilla warfare against ; Afghanistan war, withdrawal from; cold war conflict; collapse of; India and ; KGB conspiracies; Pakistan and ; and Zia ul-Haq crash

Spanish civil war

Sri Lanka, and capitalism ; caste system in; death squads ; democracy in ; economic growth; economic reform in ; economy ; education in ; elections; ethnic civil war ; Indian Peacekeeping Force in; middle class in; nationalism; Nehruvian state in ; political violence in; poverty in ; Sinhalese guerrilla movement ; socialism in; Tamil guerrilla movement ; World Bank and

Srinagar, India

Stalin, Josef V.

Stone, Oliver

students: and Indian caste system ; in Nepali democracy movement ; Sri Lankan

Suleiman.
See
Khan, Mohammed Amir Mohammed

Sunni Muslims