1. Paul Wallace, "Political Violence and Terrorism in India: The Crisis of Identity," in Martha Crenshaw, ed., Terrorism in Context (University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1995), p. 354. This figure does not include the at least 5,000 Sikhs killed in anti-Sikh riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on 31 October 1984.
2. A recent work discussing this enterprise is Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
3. India Today, 28 February 1997, p. 15.
4. For example, see The Tribune (Chandigarh), on-line edition, http://www.tribuineindia.com/ 99aug26and/99oct12, 26 August 1999 and 12 October 1999.
5. The Tribune (Chandigarh), on-line edition, http://www.tribuineindia.com/20001212, 12 December 2000.