My 2018 book India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History (Monthly Review
Press / Aakar Books) devotes three out of its ten chapters to the
Naxalite/Maoist movement. In the three chapters on that movement, to
keep within the overall word-limit I had set for the book, I edited out
about 10,000 words of important matter. My intention was not to pen a
comprehensive account of the Naxalite/Maoist movement in India, but to
throw light on a trend within it that is part of a longer thread of
Indian history going back in time to the many peasant-including
tribal-peasant-insurgencies in colonial India. At the end of chapter 7
of/India after Naxalbari/, penned at the time when the Maoist movement
was completing 50 years since its birth, I wrote: "…fifty years have
gone by, and the costs [borne by the oppressed and the exploited]… of
going without a revolution are accumulating at an atrocious rate,
including the tragedies of the victims of Hindutvavadi (deriving from a
militant political Hinduism) semi-fascist politics, backed by a 'secular
state' that has gone 'rotten at the heart'."
http://frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-53/53-22-25/53-22-25-On%20Some%20Peremptory%20Critiques%20of%20Indias%20Maoist%20Movement.html
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