manoranjan mohanty - revolutionary violence_a study of the maoist movement in india
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In Revolutionary Violence: A Study of the Maoist Movement in India (1977),a book wherein I attempted to analyse the first decade since the outbreakof the Naxalbari uprising, I advanced three propositions on the nature of themovement and the political challenge it posed to the Indianstate.At present when the Naxalite movement has spread over some 165 districtsin 13 states of India and the prime minister has described it as the"single biggest internal security challenge" it may be worthwhile to recallthe propositions and assess where the movement stands todayand whether the Indian state has now abetter understanding of the nature of thechallenge of the Naxalite movement.The propositions were:(i) The Naxalite movement was a pre-organisational movement;(ii) it practised ideological parallelism to a large extent mechanicallyapplying formulations of the Chinese revolution tocontemporary India; and(iii) the strategypursued by the Naxalites was a narrowconstruction of revolutionary strategy andwas not always one of revolutionary violence.TRANSCRIPT
