Here's an early history of the Naxalite movement, which began in Naxalbari in north Bengal and initially was a land dispute between local tribals and non-tribals. It spread as a middle class urban student movement as well in the 1960s and 1970s West Bengal.
India's Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising by Sumanta Banerjee And the "Naxalite Movement: A study of the genesis, growth, and decline of a communist movement 1967-1972 (1974)" by Biplab Dasgupta The movement has evolved and spread to other parts and it is far more grassroots today and certainly related to contemporary changes in a neoliberal India. Anthony On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Chuck Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it's long and worth it. I had no idea who or what the Naxalites were, > are. Now I do at least to the extent covered by the essay. It reminded me > some of Che Guevara's notes going into Bolivia, except the people > encountered in this essay were a lot more advanced with their projects. > > I had to google a lot just to get some idea of the geography, where in > India, and how much territory was involve. That was a shock. > > It took some time this afternoon thinking about it. Yes, I do remember a > story here and there. I very vaguely remember an AJE story about them and > looked it up. It was Imran Garda, India's Silent War. > > It's not very good. He went into an area with a camera crew and started > with > the local military so his view was automatically slanted. I re-watched it > and about 4/5ths of the way into the piece he realizes that he really > doesn't know what he is doing and more or less gives up and leaves the > story > as an enigma. I remember it again and what I thought. Just another lost > indigenous people dying out under the wave of development. The piece ended > on a dark note. > > That isn't at all what the Arnundhati Roy's piece depicts. She was by > herself with a notebook and a camera. She had a lot lower profile and could > more easily hang out. Pretty much my ideal journalism. > > CG > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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