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Naxalbari at its Golden Jubilee: Fifty recent books on the Maoist movement in India*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2017

ALPA SHAH  and
DHRUV JAIN
ALPA SHAH
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Email: [email protected]
DHRUV JAIN
Affiliation:
York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Canada Email: [email protected]
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There are not many other issues in South Asia that have attracted as much scholarly attention in the last decade as India's Naxalite or Maoist movement. At least 50 scholarly or political books, several novels, and numerous essays have been published since 2007. What we hope to do in this article is to ask why this movement has generated such attention at this moment in time, to analyse the commentaries that have emerged and the questions that have been asked, and also to identify some of the shortfalls in the existing literature and propose some lines of research to be pursued by future scholars.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , July 2017 , pp. 1165 - 1219
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Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Modern Asian Studies for seeing this as an important field of literature for analysis and requesting us to undertake it. We apologize, however, that it has taken more than three years to come to fruition. We hope that in some small way we have compensated for this long wait by the fact that the initial hope of reviewing a handful of books has turned into an article on 50 books. We thank Norbert Peabody for his generosity and his patience, and the reviewers of Modern Asian Studies for their helpful comments. The ESRC and ERC have generously funded Shah's research, enabling her to co-author this piece.

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