India’s Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising [revised, updated] 0862320380, 9780862320386

The author analyses the rural and urban conditions of poverty and oppression that fuelled the rising. He tells the story

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India’s Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising [revised, updated]
 0862320380, 9780862320386

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lndia's Simmering Revolution

Sumanta Banerjee

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Simmeri ng Revolution The Naxalite Uprising Sumanta Banerjee

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India's Simmering Revolution was first published in India under the title In the llake of Naxalbari: A History of the Naxalite Movement in India by Subarnarekha, 73 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Calcutta 700 009 in 1980; republished in a revised and updated edition by Zed Books Ltd., 57 Caledonian Road, London Nl 9BU in 1984. Copyright

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All rights reserved British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Banerjee, Sumanta

India's simmering revolution.

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