CRG has conducted research in Bangladesh, Nepal and India, especially in the country's Maoist areas and the north-eastern states.

While South Asia is predominantly home to (middle income) democracies, civil conflict and political violence have remain prominent. To explain this puzzle, CRG research examines civil war, party-political violence and the violent aspects of post-conflict situations.

As violent conflict is mostly associated with fragile and poor states, one of CRG key research concerns in South Asia is to better understand the role of political violence in middle-income democracies.

Research projects in the region have focused on rebel governance, student politics, electoral violence, forest resources, and the politics of development.

People

• Bruno De Cordier
• Krishna Kumar Saha
• Julian Kuttig
• Sheikh Shams Morsalin
• Saumya Pandey
• Atique Rahman
• Soibam Haripriya
• Bert Suykens

Current Projects

• The political economy of river sand mining in South Asia: A commodity chain approach (contact: Bert Suykens)
• Dataset: Political violence in Bangladesh (1991-2018) (contact: Bert Suykens).
• Martyrdom and propaganda ontologies in Maoist India (contact: Bert Suykens)
• The moral anthropology of violent deaths in northeast India (contact: Soibam Haripriya)
• Violence and Public order in urban Bangladesh (contact: Bert Suykens)
• Political order in Middle Bangladesh: Structured subjectivities (contact: Julian B. Kuttig)
• Local government elections and electoral violence in Bangladesh (contact: Krishna Kumar Saha)
• Landlessness and resistance in the Phulbari coal project, Bangladesh (contact: Mohammad Atique Rahman)

Past Projects

• Aesthetics of violence: Kashmir in film and other narrative forms (contact: Sreya Dutt)
• Political economy of resource extraction in North East India (contact: Anwesha Dutta)
• Understanding the logic of violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh: A micro-level analysis (contact: Aynul Islam)
• Political party activism and community mediation in the Terai, Nepal
• Beyond the shadow of war: A study of 'post-conflict' governance in Nepal
• Governance in 'rebellious' society: An ethnography of governance complexes in central and northeast India
• Local coalitions and the political economy of conflict in India: The Analysis of a livelihood complex in Telengana (Andhra Pradesh) and Nagaland
• Food Security, Conflict and Social Change in Assam, India