Full Description
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.
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Contents
1. Windows in to a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal — Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew2. In Search of Certainty in Revolutionary India — Alpa Shah3. The Formation of Political Consciousness in Rural Nepal —Sara Shneiderman4. Smouldering Dalit Fires in Bihar — George Kunnath5. Reflections of a One-time Maoist Activist — Sumanta Banerjee6. Radical Masculinity: Morality, Sociality and Relationships through Recollections of Naxalite Activists — Henrike Donner7. Women's Empowerment and Rural Revolution: Rethinking "Failed Development" —Lauren G. Leve8. From Ancestral Conflicts to Local Empowerment: Two Narratives from a Nep alese Community —Anne de Sales9. Terror in a Maoist Model Village in Mid-western Nepal —Marie Lecomte -Tilouine10. Fear and Everyday Life in Rural Nepal —Judith Pettigrew with Kamal Adhikari11. Anti-'anti-witchcraft' and the Maoist Insurgency in Rural Maharashtra —Amit Desai12. The Purification Hunt: The Salwa Judum Counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh —Jason Miklian13. The Social Fabric of the Jelbang Killings — Deepak Thapa, Kiyoko Ogura and Judith Pettigrew
