The Maoists in India Tribals Under Siege

by Mukherji, Nirmalangshu

• ISBN13: 9780745332833
• ISBN10: 0745332838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-15
• Publisher: PLUTO PRESS

Summary

Is there a 21st century Che Guevara in the forest belt of central India? Tribals Under Siege delves deep into one of the most intractable but under-reported struggles in the developing world the decades long battle between the Indian state and Maoist groups who control large parts of rural India.*BR**BR*Nirmalangshu Mukherji explains the devastating impact on India's tribal population of neo-liberalism and armed aggression by the State, as well as the impact of the armed struggle by the Maoists. Unlike most accounts he takes an honest and unflinching look at each of the Maoists' interventions, sometimes criticising their actions and the contradictions and fallacies made by their theoreticians.*BR**BR*Tribals Under Siege goes beyond analysing the Maoists purely in terms of security or military considerations. It focusses on the Maoists own political philosophy and looks critically at weather their strategy can help to deliver social justice and liberation for India's rural poor.

Author Biography

Nirmalangshu Mukherji is Professor of Philosophy at Delhi University. He studies the structure of language as it relates to general properties of human mind, and he also writes on justice and human rights. His publications include The Primacy of Grammar (MIT Press 2010) and December 13: Terror over Democracy (Bibliophile SouthAsia 2005).

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"Nirmalangshu Mukherji is a careful, judicious scholar, and his inquiry into these intricate and often shattering issues is sensitive and I think persuasive. For India, these are topics of central concern, but the implications are far broader. Throughout the world the search for resources and modern industrial and agricultural development are coming into conflict with indigenous societies and infringing on their fundamental rights. The Indian case is a particularly dramatic example, but with far-reaching implications." – Noam Chomsky