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Loving one’s country yet paying no price for it—such a thing never happens, and throughout world history revolutionaries have paid this price with everything they had, life included. The Naxalbari movement in our country has been no exception to this truth that marks all struggles in India so far. Even if an entire generation was wiped out, this movement has continued to return again and again. Naturally, the state or socially aware researchers will study this movement. But where is the information? The state itself has destroyed it. Legally published books and documents have found their way onto police seizure lists. Newspapers and magazines become illegal even before a law is passed. Supporters, too, are forced to destroy any papers or periodicals related to the movement. This is where the importance of the communist revolutionaries’ own archive—whatever they managed to protect—comes to the forefront. This book will serve as a guide for tracing the origins of the movement and for research. The volume is divided into seven chapters. Each chapter analyses movement documents, recollections of political prisoners, state responses, and the relationship of the movement with art and literature. The book is incomplete in the very same way that the revolutionary transformation of Indian society remains incomplete.
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Loving one’s country yet paying no price for it—such a thing never happens, and throughout world history revolutionaries have paid this price with everything they had, life included. The Naxalbari movement in our country has been no exception to this truth that marks all struggles in India so far. Even if an entire generation was wiped out, this movement has continued to return again and again. Naturally, the state or socially aware researchers will study this movement. But where is the information? The state itself has destroyed it. Legally published books and documents have found their way onto police seizure lists. Newspapers and magazines become illegal even before a law is passed. Supporters, too, are forced to destroy any papers or periodicals related to the movement. This is where the importance of the communist revolutionaries’ own archive—whatever they managed to protect—comes to the forefront. This book will serve as a guide for tracing the origins of the movement and for research. The volume is divided into seven chapters. Each chapter analyses movement documents, recollections of political prisoners, state responses, and the relationship of the movement with art and literature. The book is incomplete in the very same way that the revolutionary transformation of Indian society remains incomplete.
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About the Author
Amit Bhattacharyya taught in the Department of History at Jadavpur University. His areas of interest and research include Swadeshi industry, ancient and modern China and Japan, human rights, the Maoist movement, Swadeshi advertising, environmental issues, and the women’s movement.
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