Maoism’s long saga: India’s tryst with Red Terror ends
New Delhi, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s tryst with Naxalism began in 1967 and continued into the 2000s in various forms and names, beginning with challenging feudal landholdings that later spread southwards, rising in defiance against the larger state itself in accordance with Mao Zedong’s phrase, “political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” The doctrine of Communist China’s founding father — adopted in India by a handful of ultra-Leftists from a peasant uprising at Naxalbari in northern West Bengal — soon turned into romanticism rather than a political philosophy.
