Open letter to naxal (original) (raw)

Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India, 1967-71

positions: east asia cultures critique, 1995

Marxism and liberalism are not only products of the modern age but also champions of it. They share concerns and make assumptions about human society and reason which mark them unmistakably as progeny of the Enlightenment, and they see in the modern that which is both inevitable ...

Ground realities of the Naxalite movement

2009

2 An ideological adversary Ground realities of the Naxalite movement V Balachandran 5 Hope is the antidote to Naxalism Scant attention is paid to good governance at the local level ! Raj Cherubal 7 Why trying to buy surrender will not work Financial incentives for surrender will result in an increase in violence ! Atanu Dey 10 Money and friends Tracing the Naxalites' linkages to crime and other armed groups ! Ankur Kumar IN DEPTH 12 Winning the counter-insurgency endgame India must raise a new agency to 'fight' the last stage of counter-insurgency

Naxal Movement in India: A Profile

2008

R R a a j j a a t t K K u u j j u u r r I I n n s s t t i i t t u u t t e e o o f f P P e e a a c c e e a a n is an independent think tank devoted to research on peace and security from a South Asian perspective. Its aim is to develop a comprehensive and alternative framework for peace and security in the region catering to the changing demands of national, regional and global security.

Naxal/Maoist Challenge to the Indian State

Minister P Chidambaram has recognised the gravity of the problem and has initiated several pragmatic measures to combat naxalism from both angles -law and order and meaningful socio-economic development.

Strategic Nonviolent Struggle in the Twenty First Century

The Journal of Social Encounters, 2021

The Twenty First Century is on track to become the first significant Century of Nonviolent Struggle in human history. New discoveries about the effectiveness of strategic nonviolent action, a proliferation of unarmed civil resistance movements, and an explosion of research of and development of creative training methods for such movements, transmitted globally via the internet and other means of international communication point toward the increasing prevalence of unarmed methods of struggle as the emerging paradigm for conflict transformation.

‘A Marxian ‘Moment’ in the ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’: Infrapolitics and Making of the 'Naxal Narrative’ in South-Eastern Uttar Pradesh,’

2015

Social and political movements do not originate in vacuum but are rather the residual effects of a deep-seated structural crisis and frustration rooted in the objective conditions of existing social, economic and political order, its institutions and practices and notions of development, participation and governance that people challenge and seek to change. The state becomes central to this exploitative enterprise as it carries the legitimate monopoly on the means of violence, functions as an arbiter for the allocation of socially valued goods and is an upholder of existing institutions and practices that shapes relationships between citizens, organized interests, institutions and political system. It makes binding decisions, claiming to represent and aggregate various social interests and enforces adherence to them (Jerkins and Klandermans 1995). Naxalite movement or ’naxalism’ or Naxalbari as it is popularly known is one such example of a political movement in post-independent Ind...