The Maoist movement in India is one of the longest surviving communist revolutionary movements in the history of the world. Born in 1967, it has been able to withstand state brutality and rose like a phoenix from the ashes time and again. That implies the existence of some deep-rooted socio-economic needs that the existing system has failed to satisfy. Today, every protest is branded by the powers that be as ‘Maoist’. ‘Maoism’ in India ...
The ‘Other’ Universe: An Anthology of Women’s Studies
Contents: Preface. 1. Foreword. 2. Initiation and the Guru. 3. Before the partition of Bengal. 4. Why the secret societies failed. 5. Political liberation through religion. 6. Anti-partition movement. 7. Revolutionary actions. 8. Kshudiram. 9. The first attempt to commit revolutionary murder. 10. The first attempt at revolutionary Dacoity.11. Second attempt to kill the Governor. 12. Joined a revolutionary party in Europe. 13. Secret societies in Maharastra. 14. ...
History and the Changing Horizon: Science, Environment and Social Systems
This compendium of 13 papers, presented at an international seminar, organized at Jadavpur University, attempts to examine the different issues concerning social systems, science and environment, with special reference to India. Taking a close look at the status of ecology and technology from ancient to modern India, it discusses at length the geographical landscape and migration of technological tradition, the environmental disturbances occurred in India and ...
Footprints of Foot Soldiers: Experiences and Recollections of the Naxalite Movement in Eastern India 1960’s and 70’s
The volume presents a collection of articles and talks by Robert Weil that attempt to record the evolving struggle for revolutionary socialism, focusing on India and China. It discusses the movements for popular resistance and participatory democracy and development that are increasing among the working classes and the oppressed strata in the two countries. It studies the genealogy and legacy of the Cultural Revolution in China and the Maoist revolution in India. ...
Red star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth Are Rising Impressions, Reflexions and Preliminary Inferences
Popular Culture is a serious concern for academicians for quite a long time. We may legitimately identify certain aspect of culture in past eras as popular but the popular in the truest sense can be said to exist only with the context of contemporary industrial society. This link between modernity and popular derives from the vast economic, social and technological transformations that took place in the hundred years between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries.
Exploring the Green Horizon: Aspects of Environmental History
