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This book is a political analysis of India’s “greatest internal danger.” Even though several decades have passed since the Naxalbari revolution, it has returned again and again like a phoenix. It has repeatedly questioned the existing order. It has consistently raised the issue of an alternative social system and politics.Born to Nobel Prize–winning parents who loved the working people of India and the world, the author, Jan Myrdal, has crossed boundaries considered uncrossable. Ignoring the limitations of old age, he has recorded in this book, in simple and fluent language, his firsthand experiences with the people’s government of Dandakaranya — the present center of gravity of the Maoist movement. Anyone may oppose his views, but ignoring them is impossible.
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This book is a political analysis of India’s “greatest internal danger.” Even though several decades have passed since the Naxalbari revolution, it has returned again and again like a phoenix. It has repeatedly questioned the existing order. It has consistently raised the issue of an alternative social system and politics.Born to Nobel Prize–winning parents who loved the working people of India and the world, the author, Jan Myrdal, has crossed boundaries considered uncrossable. Ignoring the limitations of old age, he has recorded in this book, in simple and fluent language, his firsthand experiences with the people’s government of Dandakaranya — the present center of gravity of the Maoist movement. Anyone may oppose his views, but ignoring them is impossible.
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View all books by Niharranjan BaghJan Myrdal (born 19 July 1927, Bromma, Stockholm) is a Swedish left-wing political writer and columnist. He has been awarded an honorary D.Litt. from Upsala College in New Jersey, USA, and a Ph.D. from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. At different times he has lived in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran, and India. A liberal and wide-ranging writer, he developed interest in subjects unknown to many and worked across multiple genres, consistently seeking to place the historical and social forces of literature and popular culture within a political context. He has written books on diverse topics such as Meccano: A War-Time Propaganda Posters and French Eighteenth-Century Caricature Art.
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