Pemberontakan Punjab bermula pada akhir 1970an, saat beberapa umat Sikh, yang meliputi para anggota gerakan Khalistan, berubah menjadi militansi. Akar pemberontakan tersebut sangat kompleks dengan faktor-faktor utama adalah keinginan akan pengakuan agama Sikh dan bahasa Punjabi dan perlakuan tak semestinya dari pemerintah Kongres Nasional India sejak dibentuk para 1947.
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Combating Terrorism in Punjab: Indian Democracy in Crisis, by Manoj Joshi. Published by Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, 1993.
Politics of terrorism in India: the case of Punjab, by Sharda Jain. Published by Deep & Deep Publications, 1995. ISBN81-7100-807-0.
Terrorism: Punjab's recurring nightmare, by Gurpreet Singh, Gourav Jaswal. Published by Sehgal Book Distributors, 1996.
Terrorism in Punjab: understanding grassroots reality, by Harish K. Puri, Paramjit S. Judge, Jagrup Singh Sekhon. Published by Har-Anand Publications, 1999.
Terrorism in Punjab, by Satyapal Dang, V. D. Chopra, Ravi M. Bakaya. Published by Gyan Books, 2000. ISBN81-212-0659-6.
Rise and Fall of Punjab Terrorism, 1978–1993, by Kalyan Rudra. Published by Bright Law House, 2005. ISBN81-85524-96-3.
The Long Walk Home, by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar. Harper Collins, 2009.
Global secutiy net 2010, Knights of Falsehood by KPS Gill, 1997