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India: General Information and Mass Struggles
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General Information About India
- General History of India
- [Books:]
“A History of India”, in 2 volumes, by K. Antonova, G. Bongard-Levin, & G. Kotovsky, (Moscow: Progress, English translation, 1979),
265 pages + 343 pages. This work is very useful for researching Lenin’s many comments and views about India and the British imperialist
domination of it.
Volume 1: Searchable PDF Format [4,568 KB];
Volume 2: Searchable PDF Format [5,901 KB]
- Castes and Social Structure
- [Book:]
“Caste and Revolution”, by N. Ravi, (Hyderabad: Change Publications, December 2024), 105 pages. (This is a double-page scan.) A very
informative and useful book.
Searchable PDF format [2,068 KB]
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General Information about the Indian Revolutionary Movement
- [Book:]
“Understanding Maoists: Notes of a Participant Observer from Andhra Pradesh”, by N. Venugopal,
(Kolkata/Delhi: Setu Prakashani, 2013), 324 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [11,278 KB]
- “Walking With the Comrades”, by Arundhati Roy, Dawn magazine, March 21, 2010, 39 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [422 KB]
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Jangalnama: Travels in a Maoist Guerilla Zone, by Satnam, translated by Vishav Bharti, (2010),
220 pages. “Satnam” was the nom de plume of Gurmeet Singh, an Indian revolutionary writer (c. 1952-2016).
These travels took place in 2001 in the Bastar district of the Indian state of Chhatisgarh.
Searchable PDF Format [7,021 KB]
- [Book:]
Naxalbari and the Chinese Press: A Select Anthology, edited by Aloke Mukerjee, (Kolkata: Magpie Publishing,
September 2022), 188 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [1,815 KB]
- [Book:]
India’s Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising, by Sumanta Banerjee, (London: 1984), 352
pages. An excellent history of the development of the Naxalite movement up until the early 1980s.
Searchable PDF Format [15,083 KB]
- [Book:]
Viyyukka [The Morning Star]; Stories by Women Revolutionaries, edited by P. Aravinda and B. Anuradha, translated from Telugu (Revolutionary Writers' Association [Virasam],
December 2024), 286 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [6,838 KB]
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《社会变革进程中的纳萨尔巴里道路：实践与成就》阿吉特 [The Naxalbari Path in the Process of Social Transformation: Its Practice and Achievements], a speech by Ajith, delivered at the 30th conference of the Revolutionary Writers’ Association of India (Virasam) on January 24–25, 2026. This Chinese translation of his address was provided by the Telegram channel ‘Peoples War – Chinese Broadcast’ (TG@PeoplesWar_zh). A video of it has been hosted by Red Herald here. 15 pages.
Searchable PDF Format (Chinese) [679 KB]
Displacement of People for “Development” and the Anti-Displacement Movement
- “Fact-Finding Report on the Anti-Displacement Movement in India, 2008”, by an American school teacher,
Summer 2008, 8 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [111 KB]
Other Mass Struggles
Academic Studies [Usually More or Less Bourgeois in Outlook]
- “Naxalbari at Its Golden Jubilee: Fifty recent books on the Maoist Movement in India”, by Alpa Shah & Dhruv Jain,
(London: LSE Research Online, 2017), 40 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [608 KB]
- “Empty Symbol: The Little Red Book in India”, by Sreemati Chakrabarti, an academic article, (“Cambridge Core”,
5 June 2014), 13 pages.
Searchable PDF Format [112 KB]
Views of the Government, Think Tanks and Other Reactionaries
- [Book:]
Understanding India’s Maoists: Select Documents, by P. V. Ramana, (New Delhi: Pentagon/Institute for Defence
Studies & Analysis, 2014), 410 pages. Focused on the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Searchable PDF Format [2,411 KB]
- [Book:]
Militant Groups in South Asia, by Surinder K. Sharma and Ansuhuman Behera, (New Delhi: Institute for Defence
Studies & Analysis, 2014), 320 pages. Includes one rather superficial chapter on the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Searchable PDF Format [4,310 KB]
