This book attempts to examine the complex nuances and dynamics that make United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) a formidable insurgent group in India. Arguing that to understand the phenomenon of insurgency, one has to understand the genesis of conflict between the Indian State and the state of Assam, it claims that the ideological and identity issues between India and Assam have remained unresolved, and ULFA is a manifestation of that unresolved crisis. ...