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SUMMARY:Anatomy of a Revolution: Maoism in Telengana and the Indian State\
 , 1948-51 - Sunil Purushotham (St. Catherine's)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:Revolutionary Maoism\, commonly known as Naxalism\, is one of 
 the major challenges faced by the Indian Government today. There are vigor
 ous debates in official and media circles on the best ways for the state t
 o solve the challenge of agrarian revolution and Maoist guerilla warfare. 
 These debates\, however\, are not new. While it is commonly held that Indi
 an Maoism was born in the late 1960s\, it was as early as 1948 that commun
 ist revolutionaries officially adopted Maoist principles of revolution. Th
 e Telengana revolution from 1948 to 1951 was\, until the present conflict\
 , the largest and longest sustained agrarian revolt of the 20th century in
  India. In many ways\, the experience of Telengana foreshadowed the curren
 t crisis. Not surprisingly\, policy makers and the media have failed to le
 arn\, or apply\, any valuable lessons from the past. This paper seeks to u
 nderstand the structure of both the revolution and counterinsurgency in Te
 lengana. It seeks to create the first military history of the movement and
  critically analyses the strategies of both the revolutionaries and the go
 vernment. This paper uses archival sources to chronologically reconstruct 
 the rise\, spread\, and ultimate demise of the first sustained attempt to 
 spread revolutionary communism in independent India.
LOCATION:Seminar Room N7\, Pembroke College
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