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Author Sundar, Nandini, author.

Title The burning forest : India's war against the Maoists / Nandini Sundar
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Published London ; New York : Verso, 2019

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Contents Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; Prologue: Dandakaranya, the Forest of Exile; Part I: The Landscape of Resistance; 1. Burnt Rice; 2. Iron in the Soul; 3. 'Because I Want Peace'; 4. The Maoist State; Part II: Civil War; 5. A 'Peaceful People's Movement'; 6. Between Fear and Courage; 7. The Sorrow of the Sabari; 8. Border Crossings; 9. Notes on an 'Operation'; 10. The Renegade and the Rifleman; Part III: Institutions on Trial; 11. Security or Development?; 12. The Amnesias of Democracy; 13. The Rights and Wrongs of Human Rights
14. To Talk or Not to Talk?15. The Propaganda Wars; 16. Praying for Justice; 17. The Legal Death and Reincarnation of the Salwa Judum; Epilogue: A New Compact; Notes; Appendices; Appendix 1: Official Data on Deaths in the State-Maoist Conflict in Chhattisgarh, 2005-16; Appendix 2: Timeline; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Index
Summary The war between Maoists and the state in the heart of India The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed. Over the past decade, the heavily forested, mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one of the most militarized sites in the country. The government calls the Maoist insurgency the "biggest security threat" to India. In 2005, a state-sponsored vigilante movement, the Salwa Judum, burnt hundreds of villages, driving their inhabitants into state-controlled camps, drawing on counterinsurgency techniques developed in Malaysia, Vietnam and elsewhere. Apart from rapes and killings, hundreds of 'surrendered' Maoist sympathisers were conscripted as auxiliaries. The conflict continues to this day, taking a toll on the lives of civilians, security forces and Maoist cadres. In 2007, Sundar and others took the Indian government to the Supreme Court over the human rights violations arising out ofthe conflict. In a landmark judgment, the Court in 2011 banned state supportfor vigilantism. The Burning Forest describes this brutal war in the heart of India, and what it tells us about the courts, media and politics of the country. The result is a granular and critical ethnography of Indian democracy over a decade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2019)
Subject Naxalite movement -- India -- Bastar (District)
State-sponsored terrorism -- India -- Bastar (District)
Communists -- Political activity -- India -- Bastar (District)
Counterinsurgency -- India -- Bastar (District)
Insurgency -- India -- Bastar (District)
Communism -- India -- Bastar (District)
Naxalite movement.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
State-sponsored terrorism
Naxalite movement
Counterinsurgency
Communists -- Political activity
Communism
Insurgency
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Bastar (India : District) -- Politics and government
Bastar (India : District) -- Social conditions
India -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject India
India -- Bastar (District)
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ISBN 9781788731478
1788731476
9781788731461
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