Understanding India’s Maoists

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Maoist movement in India has a long history of about 40 years and still continues in a more organized and deadly way. The movement in India derives its ideological legitimacy from the “integrated” Marxism-Leninism-Maoism which bases itself for scientific validity on the Theory of Contradiction. The Theory is also paraphrased as law of the unity of opposites. Mao defines it as the basic law of materialistic dialectics. The theory states contradictions are everywhere: between proletariat and bourgeois, between labour and capital, between feudalism and common masses. Contradictions surface from the concrete analysis of concrete conditions’ on grounds. The proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, also known in India as Naxalites, is the most lethal and largest of all such groups. Its ultimate aim is to capture/seize political/state power though protracted people’s war (PPW), on the lines propounded by Mao Tse Tung.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Maoists and the Indian revolution. 3. Maoists movement in India. 4. Indian Naxals/Maoists turning into a global threat. 5. The bloody network of Indian Maoists. 6. Maoists rhetoric on India. 7. Naxals: the poorest people of India. Bibliography. Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M K Singh

M.K. Singh was born at Daltonganj (Jharkhand) on 2nd August 1963.  He did his graduation from Patna University and Post-graduation in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  He has wide and varied experience of serving in government but his keen interest and involvement in developmental issues and welfare of the common man made him relinquish his job with the government.  With a burning desire to get the common people associated wit the cause of development, he initiated raising of welfare issues and mobilization of people to fight against injustices and lapses in government schemes.  His focus has been on chronic problems such as Kalazar, malnutrition, drought and hunger deaths and his efforts have borne positive results with great relief to masses.  Leakage in public distribution system, providing compulsory education to all, absenteeism of teachers and doctors, migration and displacement miseries, are some of the other issues which he has been canvassing against, and highlighting at various`s social and political platforms.  He has been relentlessly interacting with different constitutional bodies and functionaries such as the Planning Commission, Finance Commission, Members of Parliament, the Governor and the President of India in his bid to sensitise them about major socio-economic issues of Jharkhand with specific reference to the tribal community.  He has organized various seminars on issues like Tribal Rights (Forest) Bill, to promote the tribal cause.  It is his constant endeavour to serve the cause of poor and weaker sections of the society in order to achieve the overall development of Jharkhand which it truly deserves.

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Title
Understanding India’s Maoists
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789380817459
Length
viii+264p., 24cm.
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