When ISIS found home in India

Kabir Taneja details how an attempt to organise a group that would align itself with the so-called Islamic State almost took off

Junood-ul-Khilafa-e-Hind (JKH) was nothing; it registered nowhere, and made no dent in anyone’s imagination as a feared homegrown terror group from India. The rise of the so-called Islamic State was indeed much like a fable of the promised land. Despite the fact that the geography that the insurgency retained was short-lived, its impact on the landscape of South Asia was sporadic yet present.

JKH was Shafi Armar’s attempt to organise a group that would align itself with the so-called Islamic State, not online, but physically. He tried to orchestrate like-minded people from around the country to try and develop a group