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Tribals Under Siege Nirmalangshu Mukherji is a careful, judicious scholar, and his T inquiry into these intricate issues is sensitive and persuasive. h NOAM CHOMSKY e M A must read for all those that follow the intense debates on politics and development in India. This book explores the writings of Maoist a ideologues relating to the Maoist movement in India’s tribal regions. o Mukherji develops a serious critique of Indian state policies and the is violent response to them, preferring the large social movements that t advocate an alternative path of development through non-violent s in resistance. ANURADHA M. CHENOY, Professor in the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, co-author of Maoist And Other Armed I Conflicts (2010) n dia The Maoists in India delves deep into one of the most intractable but under-reported insurgencies in the developing world – the decades long battle between the Indian state and the Maoist groups who control significant parts of tribal India. Nirmalangshu Mukherji explains the devastating impact on India’s tribal Nirmalangs population of neoliberalism and armed aggression by the State, as well as the impact of the armed struggle by the Maoists. Unlike most accounts, Mukherji takes an unflinching look at each of the Maoists’ interventions and critically examines the programme proposed by their prominent intellectual sympathisers. The book examines the idea of armed struggle in the context of a well-established parliamentary democracy and focuses h The Maoists in India on the Maoists’ own political philosophy, looking critically at whether their u Muk strategy can help to deliver social justice and liberation for India’s poor. T R IBALS UN DER SI EGE NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJI is Professor of Philosophy at Delhi h University. His books include December 13: Terror Over Democracy (2005). e rj i Nirmalangshu Mukherji ASIA / POLITICS cover design: Anú Design, www.anu-design.ie cover photo: Deshakalyan Chowdhury, AFP, Getty Images MUKHERJI T02614 CVR 14-06-12.indd 1 14/06/2012 14:09 The Maoists in India Mukherji T02614 00 pre 1 02/07/2012 07:54 Mukherji T02614 00 pre 2 02/07/2012 07:54 THE MAOISTS IN INDIA Tribals Under Siege Nirmalangshu Mukherji Mukherji T02614 00 pre 3 02/07/2012 07:54 First published 2012 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA www.plutobooks.com Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 Copyright © Nirmalangshu Mukherji 2012 The right of Nirmalangshu Mukherji to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7453 3283 3 Hardback ISBN 978 0 7453 3282 6 Paperback ISBN 978 1 8496 4755 7 PDF eBook ISBN 978 1 8496 4757 1 Kindle eBook ISBN 978 1 8496 4756 4 EPUB eBook Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Designed and produced for Pluto Press by Chase Publishing Services Ltd Typeset from disk by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England Simultaneously printed digitally by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, UK and Edwards Bros in the United States of America Mukherji T02614 00 pre 4 02/07/2012 07:54 Contents Abbreviations vi Glossary of Local Terms viii Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1. Dark Clouds over Dandakaranya 9 2. Fragile Democracy 29 3. Role of Intellectuals 55 4. Arms over People 84 5. Forms of Resistance 106 6. Quest for Peace 137 Appendix I: Interview with Ganapathy 161 Appendix II: Sanhati Statement against the Government of India’s planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regions 174 Notes 176 References 189 Index 195 MAPS 1. Map of India with States and Union Territories 10 2. Map of Chhattisgarh with Districts 14 Mukherji T02614 00 pre 5 02/07/2012 07:54 Abbreviations AFSPA Armed Forces Special Powers Act AICCCR All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries APDR Association of People for Democratic Rights APSIB Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Branch COBRA Commando Battalion for Resolute Action CPI Communist Party of India CPI (Maoist) Communist Party of India (Maoist) CPI (ML) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPN (M) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) CRPF Central Reserve Police Force FRA Forest Rights Act IED Improvised Explosive Device JKLF Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front JTSA Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association KAMS Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Samity (Tribal Women’s Revolutionary Front) LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam MCC Maoist Communist Center of India MLM Marxist-Leninist-Maoist MOU Memorandum of Understanding MRD Ministry of Rural Development NAPM National Alliance of People’s Movements NBA Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) NDA National Democratic Alliance NMDC National Minerals Development Corporation NREGA National Rural Employment Guarantee Act OGH Operation Green Hunt PCC Provisional Central Committee PCPA People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities PESA Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act PLGA People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army POTA Prevention of Terrorism Act PUCL People’s Union of Civil Liberties vi Mukherji T02614 00 pre 6 02/07/2012 07:54 ABBREVIATIONS vii PUDR People’s Union of Democratic Rights PWG People’s War Group RPC Revolutionary People’s Committee RSS Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (National Self-help Organisation) RTI Right to Information Act SEZ Special Economic Zone SPO Special Police Officer TMC Trinamool Congress UAPA Unlawful Activities Prevention Act UPA Union Progressive Alliance VHP Viswa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Forum) Mukherji T02614 00 pre 7 02/07/2012 07:54 Glossary of Local Terms adivasis indigenous people, tribals akhara place for ritualistic congregation for body-building, sermons etc. andolan literally, churning; wide-spread mass movement Azad Hind Free India campaign organised by Subhas Chandra Bose by recruiting Indian soldiers from the British armed forces engaged in WWII Bajrang Dal most militant forum of Sangh Parivar, devoted to lord Hanuman, the mythological monkey-devotee of lord Rama bal sangam children’s association bidi local cigarettes made out of tendu leaf crore ten million crorepati multimillionaire daal lentil soup dalam literally, a group; in Maoist parlance, a squad of armed guerrillas dalit scheduled caste at the bottom of caste-system Dandakaranya forests in East-Central India mentioned in mythologies Ganesha hindu deity with elephant’s trunk gram sabha village council, typically the lowest tier of panchayat hindu believer in hinduism broadly speaking hindutva literally, doctrines of hinduism; often identified with communalism jan adalat people’s court janatanam sarkar people’s government khap panchayat forum of upper caste landed gentry in some areas of rural North India who dictate terms for maintenance of ‘social order’ based on ‘ancient customs’ viii Mukherji T02614 00 pre 8 02/07/2012 07:54 GLOSSAry OF LOCAL TERMS ix khichri literally, gruel made out of rice and lentils; odd mixture kumbhmela six-yearly major hindu festival on the banks of the Ganges lakh a hundred thousand lingayat a community in Karnataka devoted to lord Shiva lokayukta ombudsman appointed by a provincial government lokpal proposed national ombudsman, yet to be passed by parliament mahua a variety of forest flower used to make local liquor panchayat three-tier system of elected rural self- governance panchayat pradhan head of a panchayat, typically at district-level patwari village-level land revenue official poha cooked cereal made with flaked rice Rama mythological hero in Ramayana, a hindu epic with many versions Ranvir Sena vigilante group organised by big landlords in Bihar to counter Maoists rupee local currency; one US dollar equals roughly 50 rupees safai karmachari cleaners and janitors Salwa Judum tribal vigilante force organised by Chhattisgarh state sangh parivar collection of bodies subscribing to hindutva agenda consisting of BJP, RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, among others Santhal specific indigenous people typically located in Eastern India sarpanch village-head, typically the chief of village- panchayat Shiva major hindu deity subzi vegetables telegu Dravidian language spoken mostly in Andhra Pradesh tendu plants bearing tobacco leaves Mukherji T02614 00 pre 9 02/07/2012 07:54 Acknowledgements Some of the material included here appeared in various anthologies (Habib, 2007; Dec.13, 2006); in journals and newspapers Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Social Science Review, Indian Express, Mainstream, Revolutionary Democracy, and Red Star; and in online forums ZNet, Outlook, and Kafila. The original items are listed in the references. I have learned much from editorial advice from the concerned editors. For fairness, I have supported my criticism of Maoists in India with extensive citations from recent Maoist literature – in particular, Ganapathy (2009; 2010a; 2010b) and Azad (2010a; 2010b). These are listed in the references with their site-addresses so that readers can look them up if they so desire. One of these documents (Ganapathy, 2009) is included here, with permission, as an appendix. I am indebted to many people for helpful discussion and correspondence on the issues covered in this work: Mahtab Alam, Swami Agnivesh, Amiya Bagchi, Sourin Bhattacharya, Akeel Bilgrami, Ramratan Chatterjee, Anuradha Chenoy, Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Noam Chomsky, Subhransu Choudhury, Biswabasu Das, Probal Dasgupta, Amiya Deb, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Anuradha Ghosh, Hiren Gohain, Abhijit Guha, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Javed Iqbal, Ali Javed, Sanjay Kak, Poonam Kaushik, Kavita Krishnan, Rimina Mohapatra, Nivedita Menon, Radhika Menon, Subodh Mitra, Gautam Mody, Bijoy Mukherjee, Aditya Nigam, Pratyush Nilotpal, Rahul Pandita, Prabhat Patnaik, Utsa Patnaik, Justin Podur, Vijay Prashad, Badri Raina, K.
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