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Looting

What next?

The Indian state, for all its sub-optimal functioning over the decades, has exhibited a consistent ability to contain armed, state-seeking secessionists ~ right from 1947, and across political dispensations.

Stepping in

The Centre has done well to intervene to quell the violence, looting, and arson in Manipur last week by imposing Article 355 of the Constitution in the state