Maoists Mayhem on Rise : States Failed to Coordinate

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Red Terror: India’s Maoist Mayhem. 3. Maoist movement in India. 4. Rise of Naxalism and Maoism in India. 5. Maoism, State and the Communist Movement in India. 6. Maoist insurgency, Guerrilla Warfare and State Response. 7. Naxal-Maoists Nexus: implications for India. 8. Peasant uprisings of Naxalite. 9. Mao’s legacy and the future of Maoism. Bibliography. Index.

The Maoist Communist Centre of Bihar and Jharkhand claims that its influence in the region extends to a population of about 12 million people of tribal origin. Even though more widespread than the earlier Naxalite movement, the Maoists of today have not yet been able to build powerful country wide political movements. The overall picture is one of a relatively strong militant outfit with popular support in its strongholds in the south, central and eastern regions. Outside its core areas, the Indian State has been able to prevent Maoist entry into the national political arena. The Maoist and Naxalite movements in the country are mostly rooted in the government’s failure to guarantee the basic norms of a democratic state to a large section of the country’s population, particularly in rural regions and remote villages. This explains why these parallel extremist movements are mainly spread across the remotest villages in the country. The book analyzes almost all the terms which have been used by different scholars for charactering such movement. It examines ideology; environment; organization and strategy of the Maoist Movement and Rise in India and abroad.