Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Biographical notes; 1. Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal; 2. In Search of Certainty in Revolutionary India; 3. The Formation of Political Consciousness in Rural Nepal; 4. Smouldering Dalit Fires in Bihar; 5. Reflections of a One-time Maoist Activist; 6. Radical Masculinity: Morality, Sociality and Relationships through Recollections of Naxalite Activists; 7. Women's Empowerment and Rural Revolution: Rethinking "Failed Development."
8. From Ancestral Conflicts to Local Empowerment: Two Narratives from a Nepalese Community9. Terror in a Maoist Model Village in Mid-western Nepal; 10. Fear and Everyday Life in Rural Nepal; 11. Anti-"anti-witchcraft" and the Maoist Insurgency in Rural Maharashtra; 12. The Purification Hunt: The Salwa Judum Counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh; 13. The Social Fabric of the Jelbang Killings; Index
Summary
"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
