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India: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

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UCDP recorded 8 events of organized violence in India in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 35. UCDP counts 1 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for November 2025 was 8 events.

The count for December 2024 was 15 events. The change from December 2024 to December 2025 is down 47 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for India, December 2025 has the 24th highest count of events. India holds 0 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in all countries with a page in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 1 percent.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Regions

The table has 10 regions at most.

Table 1. India, December 2025: events and estimated deaths by region, in name order
RegionEventsEstimated deaths
Chhattisgarh state426
Jammu and Kashmir state11
Jharkhand state12
Odisha state26
Figure 1. Events in India, December 2025. The map shows 8 events with 35 estimated deaths. One dot is one event at the place that UCDP gives. When a source names no exact place, UCDP puts the event at the centre of a region or of the country. The area of a dot follows the best estimate of deaths. The largest dot is for 330 deaths or more.1 death10 deaths100 deathsOutlines: Natural Earth, with the first-level areas of the UCDP data. An outline shows where the events are. It is not a statement about a border.

Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of India has each event.

Table 2. India, December 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
3 Dec 2025Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh stateGovernment of India; CPI-MaoistState-based212121
7 Dec 2025Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh stateCPI-Maoist; CiviliansOne-sided111
15 Dec 2025Udhampur district, Jammu and Kashmir stateGovernment of India; Kashmir insurgentsState-based111
18 Dec 2025Sukma district, Chhattisgarh stateGovernment of India; CPI-MaoistState-based333
19 Dec 2025Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh stateGovernment of India; CPI-MaoistState-based111
24 Dec 2025Kandhamal district, Odisha stateGovernment of India; CPI-MaoistState-based222
25 Dec 2025Kandhamal district, Odisha stateGovernment of India; CPI-MaoistState-based444
28 Dec 2025Chatra district, Jharkhand stateGovernment of India; CPI-MaoistState-based222

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 3. India: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
CPI-Maoist734
Government of India734
Kashmir insurgents11

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

Type of violence

Table 4. India: events by type of violence, December 2025
Type of violenceEventsShare of events
State-based armed conflict788%
Non-state conflict00%
One-sided violence against civilians113%

The glossary has the UCDP definition of each type.

All months

Table 5. Monthly reports of India, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202616P28PCandidate Events
August 202611P17PCandidate Events
July 20267P9PCandidate Events
June 202610P14PCandidate Events
May 202614P25PCandidate Events
April 202614P32PCandidate Events
March 202613P20PCandidate Events
February 202616P32PCandidate Events
January 202621P60PCandidate Events
December 2025835GED
November 2025841GED
October 20251315GED
September 20252552GED
August 20251724GED
July 20251227GED
June 20251835GED
May 202535114GED
April 20252682GED
March 20251467GED
February 20251769GED
January 20251662GED
December 20241533GED
November 20241737GED
October 20242379GED
September 20241643GED
August 20241722GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 20 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

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ConflictStats. India: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/india/month/2025-12/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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