Windows Into a Revolution : Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal

Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the remote hills of western Nepal; the disillusionments of dalits of central Bihar in the policies of the cadres; to the complexities of the interrelationship between non-aligned civilians and insurgents in central Nepal, the book offers a series of windows into different stages of mobilization and transformation into what are, were or may become, revolutionary strongholds. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Biographical notes 10 1. Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal 14 2. In Search of Certainty in Revolutionary India 52 3. The Formation of Political Consciousness in Rural Nepal 73 4. Smouldering Dalit Fires in Bihar 102 5. Reflections of a One-time Maoist Activist 126 6. Radical Masculinity: Morality, Sociality and Relationships through Recollections of Naxalite Activists 149 7. Women’s Empowerment and Rural Revolution: Rethinking “Failed Development” 173 8. From Ancestral Conflicts to Local Empowerment: Two Narratives from a Nepalese Community 198 9. Terror in a Maoist Model Village in Mid-western Nepal 220 10. Fear and Everyday Life in Rural Nepal 246 11. Anti-“anti-witchcraft” and the Maoist Insurgency in Rural Maharashtra 272 12. The Purification Hunt: The Salwa Judum Counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh 295 13. The Social Fabric of the Jelbang Killings 322 Index 347 "Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the remote hills of western Nepal; the disillusionments of dalits of central Bihar in the policies of the cadres; to the complexities of the interrelationship between non-aligned civilians and insurgents in central Nepal, the book offers a series of windows into different stages of mobilization and transformation into what are, were or may become, revolutionary strongholds."--Provided by publisher