Remembering KPS Gill, a man behind India's successful counter-insurgency strategies

In the late 1980s, India appeared to be on the cusp of disintegration, with a multiplicity of insurgencies raging - at a peak in Punjab, in multiple states of the Northeast, a raging Maoist movement across wide swathes of territory from Andhra Pradesh in the South to the Nepal border in Bihar, and an abrupt descent into chaos in Jammu & Kashmir.

In Tamil Nadu, Sri Lankan terrorists of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had entrenched themselves, running a flourishing network of organised crime and mobilising local sympathisers to raise an incipient demand for a unified Tamil state spanning the Palk Strait.

As we look at the defeated and degraded insurgencies across India today, the nation must recall its debt to the one man who made this possible - KPS Gill, best known as the man who, as Director-General of the Punjab Police, stamped out the Khalistani insurgency from the state. The generation that experienced the terror in Punjab is now aging or has passed.

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