This is an unusual account of the complexities of the entire Naxalite movement, covering the two major epicenters-the Naxalbari region during 1967-68 and the more virulent later phase of 1969-72 affecting Kolkata and its suburbs. Based entirely on a wealth of hitherto unknown government and police records of the entire period, with interesting explanatory notes, this publication was awaited for long both by discerning analysts of the movement and its ...
