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This book provides an authoritative political history of the Sikh separatist insurgency in Punjab by focusing on the "patterns of political leadership"; a previously unexplored variable. It describes in detail the events which led to the emergence of the "Punjab Crisis"; the various means through which the movement was sustained; and the changing nature of political leadership and courses of military action which necessitated its decline in the mid-1990s. Providing a microhistorical analysis of the Punjab crisis; the book argues that the trajectories of ethnonationalist movements are largely based on the interaction between self-interested political elites; who not only react to the structural choices they face; but whose purposeful actions and decisions ultimately affect the course of ethnic group-state relations.