The Burning Forest India’s War Against the Maoists 1st Edition by Nandini Sundar 178873145X 9781788731454

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ISBN 10: 178873145X 

ISBN 13: 9781788731454

Author: Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and 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, burned 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 sympathizers 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 of the conflict. In a landmark judgment in 2011 the court banned state support for 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 fascinating critical account of Indian democracy.

Table of contents:

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

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