I haven't read the Roy article but she is right (though I wouldn't use the word indigenous, who is not in India?) What she probably means is tribal communities. Certainly the movement is against the Indian state but I am unclear why against the Hindu majority because that would make the enemy rather hard to identify in India. May be it is the landlords (the original Naxalite began with that) and upper castes in elite India, which is also part of the Indian state. I guess should read the Roy article. But like the Sendero Luminoso in Peru there are mixed stories of terror by the state and by the Maoists and often poor villagers are caught between them. It is also not clear what ideology is driving this uprising unlike the previous Naxal movement (which in its radical version was "annihilation of the class enemy"). But the middle class base of this movement after the initial peasant/tribal uprising in the cities such as Kolkata in an environment of state repression dissolved the movement. Though there is certainly some continuity in today's Maoist movement in India, I think the class composition of the movement is very different with a very different agenda and definitely in a rapidly changing India in an uneven way.
Anthony On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > From the Roy article, it seems to basically be a movement of indigenous > peoples with some student support against the Indian state and Hindu > majority. is that accurate? > > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Anthony D'Costa < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshavens 24B, 3.78, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 *KOREA CONFERENCE April 18-19* *http://tinyurl.com/cwrxcg4* *TRANSFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT (INDIA AND CHINA) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198082286.do#.UI5Wzmc2dI0* *GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC NATIONALISM IN ASIA*** *http://www.oup.com/localecatalogue/cls_academic/?i=9780199646210 ****A NEW INDIA?* <http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/a-new-india-1.html>* http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf* *NEW ASIAN INNOVATION DYNAMICS* http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=295354 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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