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Voices From The Underground 1965-71

Author: Amit Bhattacharyya

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Categories: Current Affairs, History, Political Science
Year January 2022
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Binding Paperback
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ISBN 978-81-953908-3-0

Naxalbari exploded many a myth. The upheaval was such that nothing remained the same after Naxalbari. People had to readjust their position vis-a-vis every aspect of the system, political, administrative, military, cultural ”— Samar Sen. How prophetic was the above statement! A section of the toiling masses still keeps hope in the undying spirit of the movement. The Government, on the other, is pursuing administrative, legal, and military policies to contain the discontent of the teeming multitudes. This volume is the first in the series where select documents of the Naxalbari movement as well as thought-provoking debates are compiled.

The present volume contains seventeen documents written by the pioneers of the first stage of the movement– articles of Charu Mazumder, Saroj Dutta, Suniti Kumar Ghosh, and Sushital Roychowdhury. General readers, activists, scholars, and policymakers will find this volume a ready reference for the study of the movement and its inherent dynamics.

Eight Documents of Charu Mazumdar
1.Document 1 : ‘ Our Tasks in the Present Situation’
2.Document 2: ‘Make the People’s Democratic Revolution successful by fighting against Revisionism’
3.Document 3 : ‘what is the Source of the spontaneous revolutionary outburst in India’
4.Document 4 : ‘Carry on the struggle against modern Revisionism’
5.Document 5: ‘What possibility the year 1965 is indicating’
6.Document 6: ‘The main task today is the struggle to build up the true Revolutionary Party through uncompromising struggle against Revisionism’
7.Document 7 : ‘Build up armed partisan struggle by fighting against Revisionism’
8.Document 8: ‘It is by fighting against Revisionism that the present struggle will have to be taken forward’

Book-burning and Iconoclasm
1.Saroj Dutta ‘On the Burning of Books
2.Saroj Dutta , ‘ On Gandhi’
3.Charu Mazumdar, ‘Forge Closer Unity with Peasants’ Armed Struugle’
4.Sushital Roy Chowdhuri , ‘ Purna’s Document
5.Charu Mazumdar’s Rejoinder
6. ‘Indefence of Image-breaking’
7.Saroj Dutta, ‘ On Vidyasagar’
8.Saroj Dutta, ‘On Prafulla Chandra Ray’
9.Saroj Dutta, ‘ On Subhas Bose’
10.Suniti Kumar Ghosh @ Partha Chowdhuri, ‘ About Imperialism;s lackey called ‘Deshbandhu’ and important phase on Indian history.

Amit Bhattacharyya

The editor, Amit Bhattacharyya, a retired Professor of Jadavpur University, is a historian. His major publications include Swadeshi Enterprise in Bengal 1900-1947 (in 2 vols.) and Storming the Gates of Heaven: The Maoist Movement in India A Critical Study 1972-2014.

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