From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade

ISBN-13: 9781032653686 / Angielski

Ranabir Samaddar

Opis

This book argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond our understanding. It brings out for the first time unknown peasant heroes and heroines of that era, analyses the nature of the urban revolt, and shows how the urban revolt of that time anticipate

Spis treści

1. From Popular Movements to Rebellion: Introducing the Naxalite Decade  Section I: Prelude to the Storm: Bengal in the Fifties and Sixties  2. The Refugee Movement as a Founding Moment of Popular Movements in Post-independent West Bengal  3. Anti-Tram Fare Rise Movement and Teachers’ Movement in Calcutta, 1953–54  4. The Defining Moments of Left Popular Politics in West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 and 1966  Section II: The Naxalite Decade  5. The Artisans of Revolt: Peasant Activists of Naxalbari  6. Repertoires and Politics in the Time of Naxalbari  7. The Prairie Fire Spreads I: Medinipur  8. The Prairie Fire Spreads II: Birbhum  9. Occupy College Street: Notes from the Sixties  10. The Culture Battle  11. Spring Thunder and The Dialectic of Critique  12. The Naxalite Decade Comes to a Close, but Land Question Persists  Section III: The Decade in Bihar 13. Bihar in 1974: Possibilities and Limits of a Popular Movement 14. Bihar in the Sixties and Seventies: The Enigmatic Figure of Karpoori Thakur  15. Reports: Rural Poor and the Armed Rebels of Bihar, 1960–70s  Section IV: The Cultural Struggle: A Small Anthology  16. Introducing the Anthology  17. The Palpable Reality of Fiction  18. Ani  19. Midnight Knock  20. Corpse Worship  21. Human Gems  22. Homecoming  23. Release Them  24. Reportage 

O autorze

Ranabir Samaddar holds the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, and is a political thinker and one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies.