Contents

Preface....................iv

List of Abbreviations...............vii

1. The origins......................1

2. The little wars............................13

3. The triangle..........................53

4. Decolonization and the road to revolt......................66

5. The communists and the clenched fist...................89

6. Operation Jericho and after...............................142

7. The turbulent slopes............................195

8. The embattled hill tracts..................................245

9. The foreign hand................................310

10. Post............................320

Appendix 1 MEMORANDUM OF SETTLEMENT..................323

Appendix 2 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH TNV..................328

Appendix 3 THE CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS REGULATION, 1900.......................331

Select Bibliography........................339

Index......................355