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      • War and Peace in Junglemahal : People, State and Maoists
        May 2012

        War and Peace in Junglemahal : People, State and Maoists

        by Editor- Biswajit Roy

        A large part of tribal homeland across India, from Dandakaranya in central India to Junglemahal in West Bengal, has been witnessing a civil war between the central/state governments and the banned CPI(Maoist). Half-hearted attempts have been made to hold peace talks between the warring sides from Andhra Pradesh in 2004 to Bengal in 2011 but have ended in killing of key Maoist leaders. As the blame game continues, civil society remains bitterly divided on which side has failed peace. This collection of essays, by well-known activists and academics including the mediators, examines the failed peace initiatives in the context of the governments’ elitist ‘developmental’ policies, doublespeak of the parliamentary parties and Maoists’ follies. Dissecting the paradigms of peace, role of civil society and peace mediators, they offer wide range of views on Maoist violence vis-à-vis State violence while reflecting on the debates about democracy under red power and autonomy of grassroots movements and organisations. Students and teachers of contemporary South Asian history, studies in development and conflicts, policy researchers, activists, journalists and other discerning readers will find this book particularly helpful.

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      • Understanding Maoists
        January 2013

        Understanding Maoists

        NOTES OF A PARTICIPANT OBSERVER FROM ANDHRA PRADESH

        by N. VENUGOPAL

        Though Andhra Pradesh occupies a major place in the Maoist movement, a commensurate and comprehensive account on the origin and growth of the movement is not available. There has been a felt need for such a comprehensive narration of the multi-layered movement for a long time. This volume of collected essays chronicling various aspects of the Maoist movement in the state is a step in the direction of developing such a work.

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      • Is The Torch Passing? Resistance and Revolution in China & India
        August 2013

        Is The Torch Passing? Resistance and Revolution in China & India

        by Robert Weil

        Building on his extensive studies of China and the struggle for socialism, Robert Weil examines the revolutionary and popular movements in India. Through his analysis we witness the courage, endurance, and persistence of the Indian and Chinese people, as a basis for our revolutionary optimism. He also foresees the possibility of popular movements and Maoists in both countries joining forces to fight their common enemy and win. Anyone who is seriously concerned about the future of these two great nations should read: Is the Torch Passing? Pao-yu of Economics Emerita at Marygrove College Detroit, Michigan, USA Robert Weil unfolds the dialectical relation between the concept of social transformation and revolutionary praxis and once again with persuasive argument reaffirms the import of people’s struggles in realizing just political governance. A must read for activists,students and researchers of social movements and critical studies in social science. Swapna Banerjee-Guhsa,Professor of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai A Clear, direct account of the revolutionary tradition in China and India, placing the Cultural Revolution and Naxalbari in the line of the Paris Commune and October. Will help cut through the maze of postcolonial and ‘end oh history’ ideologies. Saroj Giri, Associate Professor of Political Science, Delhi University, New Delhi.

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      • Storming The Gates Of Heaven
        January 2016

        Storming The Gates Of Heaven

        The Maoist Movement in India A Critical Study 1972-2014

        by AMIT BHATTACHARYA

        The Maoist movement in India is one of the longest surviving communist revolutionary movements in the history of the world. Born in 1967, has been able to withstand state brutality for so long and rose like a phoenix from the ashes time and again implies the existence of some deep-rooted socio-economic needs that the existing system has failed to satisfy. Today, every protest is identified with ‘Maoism’, every dissident voice is being branded by the powers-that-be and sections of the corporate media as ‘Maoist’. ‘Maoism’ in India has, for good or bad, been identified with the fight for dignity, justice and human values. This is a modest attempt at the first-ever comprehensive history of the movement made by a professional historian.  This movement is not the tale of’senseless violence,  but an epic story to create a beautiful world free from exploitation,  greed and bloodshed altogether.  Hitherto untapped material has been used to analyze the bitter struggle between MCC and CPI(MLI Party Unity and CPI(MLI People’s War and the formation of the CPI(Maoist).  Its impact on society,  culture and historical study,  Bhojpur struggle role of woman warriors with entirely new approaches to man-woman relationships radical mass organizations.  Emergence of Maoism and the pro-people development model in Dandakaranya have been discussed in detail.  This movement,  successful,  is likely to make a deep impression everywhere in India and abroad. A chapter on Primary Sources,  rare photographs of places–Naxalbari killing,  Charu Mazumdar’s residence,  of cover pages of forbidden literature and a list of departed woman activists further enriched the quality of the book. The main title of the book is borrowed from Karl Marx who hailed the Communards of Paris for daring to”Storm the Gates of Heaven”  in 1871.

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      • The Wayward Daughter
        Fiction
        January 2018

        The Wayward Daughter

        A Kathmandu Story

        by Shradha Ghale

        Set against the backdrop of approaching civil war, the story of a young girl’s coming of age by one of Nepal’s newest, strongest voices writing in English Sumnima Tamule is in a crisis. Her friends at Rhododendron High School—all girls from semi-royal and other rich families—will soon be going abroad, but she, with second-division marks in her final exams, might have to settle for a grimy little college in town. Her parents, plodding away in middle-class Kathmandu, are deeply disappointed, and all their hopes are now pinned on Numa, her sister. Sundry cousins from their village in far-off Lungla—driven out by poverty and the warring Maoists—come to live with the family, trample upon her privacy, and wage kitchen politics with Boju, her foul-tongued grandmother. Other relatives embarrass her with their gauche village ways. And, worst of all, Sagar, Sumnima’s US-returned RJ boyfriend, for whom she has been lying, sneaking around and stealing money from home, keeps her waiting for his phone calls. Employing a rich cast of characters, The Wayward Daughter tells the story of a young girl seeking out love, finding herself and her own spaces in life. Equally, it draws a telling portrait of Kathmandu—its class and caste divisions, its cosmopolitanism which exists alongside conservative attitudes, and its politics due to which a civil war looms. Written with humour, empathy and skill, this novel is a must-read.

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      • The Chinese Box
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        The Chinese Box

        by Christopher New

        The second book in the unparalleled China Coast Trilogy, The Chinese Box sets itself in 1960s Hong Kong during the time of the Cultural Revolution. Dimitri Johnston, half Russian, half English, fears he may be forced to leave. As waves of Maoist violence threaten to overwhelm the colony, Dimitri and Mila, a Chinese ballet dancer, are caught up in the storm and compelled to make agonising choices. 'There is nothing not to like and every reason to be excited about The Chinese Box... Easy to read but not unsophisticated' - Asian Wall St. Journal

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      • Shadow Distance
        June 2011

        Shadow Distance

        A Gerald Vizenor Reader

        by Gerald A. Vizenor

        A rich selection from the broad range of a prolific Native American writer’s work.

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      • Searching for Sweetness
        March 2022

        Searching for Sweetness

        Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho

        by Sarah Hanisch

        Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the backdrop of China’s national struggle for modernity and globalisation, Sarah Hanisch examines Chinese migrant women’s complex and ever-shifting struggles for upward social mobility across different generations and localities in China and Lesotho. Embedding the women’s individual portraits into larger historical contexts, Hanisch illustrates how these women interpret and narrate their migratory and everyday experiences through and beyond powerful state metanarratives on ‘sweetness’ and ‘bitterness’. In her exploration of migratory identities and projects that have been overlooked by previous studies, Hanisch brings uniquely gendered, multi-sited, and intergenerational perspectives to existing scholarship on Chinese internal and international migration.

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      • New Asian Disorder
        December 2021

        New Asian Disorder

        Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century

        by Edited by Lowell Dittmer

        In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a new set of global financial institutions and replacing “universal values” with technologically enhanced nationalism. The country’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is also tainted by the vast ambition to realize the “China Dream” within the foreseeable future. In response to China’s challenge, the United States has abandoned its “constructive engagement” policy towards the rising power and engaged in a trade war. Sino-American relations have been at a historical trough since the normalization of their relationship in the late 1970s. This book sheds new light on the current political disorder in the East Asian international arena. The new Asian disorder is analyzed from three perspectives: the first focuses on identity, the second on political economy, and the third on the triangular dynamic. This collection of essays concludes that, unless and until consensus can be reached on a coherent new framework for cooperation and rule enforcement among different stakeholders in East Asia, the current disorder may be expected to persist.

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