Discourses on Naxalite Movement 1967-2009 : Insights into Radical Left Politics
Contents: I. Culture: 1. Mapping a rugged terrain: Naxalite politics and Bengali culture in the 1970s/Sumanta Banerjee. 2. Forest interface: the Naxalites between vanguard and Subaltern/Ben Conisbee Baer. 3. Legitimation or Dissensus? Establishing a critical comprador between Naxalite ideology and postcolonial theory/Subhadeep Paul. 4. Long live counter revolution: bourgeois rewriting of Naxalbari and the return of the impure/Samrat Sengupta. 5. The exterminating angles and their cinematic representatives: a study of Naxalism in Malayalam Cinema/Parichay Patra. 6. Press and the people: representing the Naxalite movement 1967-72/Shatarupa Sen Gupta. II. Ideology: 7. Naxalism and class hatred/Rabindra Ray. 8. The Naxalite movement: in search of the root of its debacle/Dipankar Chakrabarti. 9. The path of Naxalbari: an appraisal/Kunal Chattopadhyay. 10. Imagining a dialogue: Naxalite and post structuralist/postmodernist/Pradhip Basu. III. New Social issues: 11. The romantic manifesto of revolution: some reflections on issues of gender in the Naxalbari movement 1967-75/Mallarika Sinha Roy. 12. Does environmental degradation escalate Naxalist violence reflections from Orissa/Samistha Pattanaik. 13. Land caste and tribal imbroglio: a case study of Naxalism in South Eastern Uttar Pradesh/Subir Rana. 14. Primacy of the political over the non-political: Naxalites in prisons 1968-77/Sanjoy K. Mukherjee. 15. CPI (ML) and the question of caste: dynamics of social mobilization in anti-fedual struggles in Telangana/K. Srinivasulu. 16. Naxalism fighting for what: question of exclusion, dignity and livelihood/Chunnu Prasad. 17. Naxalite movement in Anantapur District: an evaluation of its origin and implications/G. Sreeramulu. IV. Socio-economics issues: 18. Maoist movement in India and the alternative model of development in Dandakaranya/Amit Bhattacharyya.19. Naxalism: transforming or terrorising?/Manoj Kumar. 20. Tackling Naxalism land reforms the way out: a case study of land reforms in Jammu and Kashmir/Ravinder Jit Kaur. V. Organisation: 21. Carrying forward the struggle for organization in the present situation/Dhruv Jain. 22. Democracy in the contemporary maoist movement in India/Partha S. Banerjee. 23. The problem of fragmentation in the Naxalite movement/C. Bhaskara Rao. VI. Legal administrative issues: 24. Ideological issues in the Naxalite movement/Amiya K. Samanta. 25. State policy toward ultra left movement: a critical perspective of constitutional jurisprudence in India/Debasis Poddar. 26. The Naxalite movement in West Bengal and police response/Sujoy Chakrabarti. 27. The Naxalite movement in Bengal: aborted dreams and unanswered questions/Rajat K. Majumder. VII. Politics: 28. civil society and the uncivil war: Maoist movements in contemporary India/Samir Kumar Das. 29. Democratic revolution or revolutionary Democracy?/Ramu Manivannan. 30. Revisiting the Naxalite movement in Kerala/Suresh Jnaneswaran. 31. Analyzing political dimensions of the Naxalite movement/Midatala Rani. 32. Valour and violence the Naxalbari movement: urban impact/Sandip Bandyopadhyay. 33. Naxalite movement in Andhra Pradesh/P. Hussain Khan and P. Bilala Ahmed.
An Armed struggle in the world\'s largest democracy, subjected to severe state repression ever experienced in the land of Buddha and Gandhi, the Naxalite movement, still after four decades of its inception, continues to haunt the Indian state. A modern phoenix it has arisen from its devastation to ashes into the greatest internal security threat for the country as observed by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister.
This anthology consist of thirty three original and unpublished research papers written by scholars from India and abroad from various discursive positions. This volume will cater to the needs of the general readers, government policy-makers, social activists and research students of social science.
