View Larger Print this page Email to Friend	RED SUN In 1967, Naxalbari, a village in West Bengal, became the centre of a Mao-inspired militant peasant uprising guided by firebrand intellectuals. Today, Naxalism is no longer the Che Guevara-style revolution that it was. Spread across 15 of India's 28 states, it is one of the world's biggest, most sophisticated extreme-Left movements, and feeds off the misery and anger of the dispossessed. Since the late 1990s, hardly a week has passed without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoistsinterchangeably known as the Naxalitesand police and paramilitary forces.In this brilliant and disturbing examination of the 'Other India', Sudeep Chakravarti combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country: Chhattisgarh (home to the controversial state-sponsored Salwa Judum programme to contain Naxalism), Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (where a serving chief minister was nearly killed in a landmine explosion triggered by the Naxalites). He meets Maoist leaders and sympathizers, policemen, bureaucrats, politicians, security analysts, development workers, farmers and tribalspeople, big and small, who comprise the actors and the audience in this war being fought in jungles and Product Details Author-Sudeep Chakravarti ISBN-670081337 This title is part of the 'Vodafone Crossword' book awards shortlist This product is not entitled for point accrual or redemption in Shoppers Stop First Citizen and Crossword Book Reward Program     Item Number:4644303_9999 Qty OUT OF STOCK MRP Rs.350.00 Our Price Rs.297.50
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