The intimacy of insurgency: Beyond coercion, greed or grievance in Maoist India

Economy and Society

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 480-506

  Shah, Alpa ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adivasi; civil war; Communist Party of India (Maoist); counter insurgency; ideology; India; intimacy; Naxalite; revolution; tribe

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; COMMUNISM; KINSHIP; LIBERALIZATION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

INDIA;

EID: 84879400928     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: 14695766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2013.783662     Document Type: Article

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