Jugdep S. Chima is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Hiram College, USA. He is the author of The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements (2010) and the editor of Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia: Identities, Interests, and Challenges to State Authority (2015). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Asian Survey, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Review of International Studies, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Third World Quarterly on topics relating to the political economy of conflict, political parties and group conflict, individual participation in insurgency, and ethnicity and democracy. Pahi Saikia is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. She is the author of Ethnic Mobilisation and Violence in Northeast India (2011). She has also co-edited a book with Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury titled India and Myanmar Borderlands: Ethnicity, Security and Connectivity (2019). She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Political Psychology, India Review, South Asian History and Culture on political behavior, ethnofederalism, identity-digital media nexus, women in post-conflict zones, and India's multilateral connectivity.