India Burning: The Maoist Revolution

A Companion to the Anthropology of India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 332-351

  Shah, Alpa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adivasi mobilization in contemporary heartland of revolution two popular stereotypes; Adivasi dominated regions of Jharkhand no obvious, locally based class enemy; India burning the Maoist revolution; Jharkhand Legislative Assembly polls, November 25, 2009 little more than a contest to buy votes; Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) and CPI(M), the parliamentary path; Media reporting, recent string of violence in its understanding of life in Maoist fold; Revolutionary politics of Naxalite movement roots in period of splits in the CPI; Rising flames, Naxalbari uprising of 1967 in West Bengal Indian Maoists, as the naxalites; The Maoists, blocking exploitation of India's mineral resources in India's adivasi heartlands; World's largest paramilitary force camped in schools across central and eastern India

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885552134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390599.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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