India After Naxalbari: Unfinished History

Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world''s longest-running people''s war, and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance? Bernard D''Mello''s fascinating narrative answers this question by tracing the circumstances that gave rise to India''s 1968 decade of revolutionary humanism and those that led to the triumph of the 1989 era of appallingly unequal growth condoned by Hindutva-nationalism, the Indian variant of Nazism. Will what remain of India''s continuing 1968 bring twenty-first-century New Democracy to the collective agenda? Or will the ongoing regression of 1989 lead the way to full-blown semi-fascism and sub-imperialism? India after Naxalbari is far more than a simple history of the ongoing Naxalite/Maoist resistance; it is a deeply passionate and informed work that not only captures the essence of modern Indian history but also tries to comprehend the present in the context of that history - so that the oppressed can exercise their power to influence its shape and outcome. See more