Maoism in India: a movement in decline

For decades, Maoism gripped India’s heartlands, inspiring rebellion and resistance across forests, villages, and forgotten frontiers. This e-book offers a compelling narrative of how a revolutionary ideology took root, evolved through local conflicts and tribal alliances, and ultimately waned in the face of a changing political landscape.

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What’s inside:

1. India’s Maoist insurgency and theoretical underpinnings, by Srinivasan Ramani

2. The Dandakaranya episode: breaking the Maoist stronghold, by R.K. Vij

3. Red resistance in undivided Andhra Pradesh, by K. Sreenivas Reddy

4. The brief and intense second Maoist wave in Bengal, by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

5. Embers of a revolution: Kerala’s Naxalbari days, by S. Anandan

6. Echoes from the forests of South Chhattisgarh, by Shubhranshu Choudhary

Editor’s Note:

Left-wing extremism might not have much of a future in India, but it has a long history. The violent Maoist current within the communist mainstream changed shape and course several times in the last few decades. Many of the groups, drawn from tribal sections and peasants, were united not by any coherent ideology, but by their means – armed struggle – and their distant goal, vaguely defined, of a communist society.

This e-book, Maoism in India: a movement in decline, outlines the theoretical frameworks of the movement, its physical manifestation in Bengal, Kerala, united Andhra Pradesh, and tribal areas of the Hindi belt, and the unique security challenges faced by the Indian state in the face of an enemy hiding oftentimes in plain sight among ordinary villagers in remote regions.

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Suresh Nambath,

Editor

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