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Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Maoists in short, suffered severe blows in two separate encounters with security force (SF) personnel in Bastar region of the central Indian State of Chhattisgarh. The SFs have been making significa....

December 12, 2024 Maoists , CRPF , Manipur , Coast Guard , Kuki , Narcotics , Gujarat , Internal Security Monitor , Digital Arrest , Haji Salim , Jaamu Kashmir , AFSPA , HNLC , Meghalaya , CISF , Andaman

Internal Security Monitor Vol 1, No 1

Addressing a gathering on Martyr’s Day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on October 21, 2024, outlined the various ‘emerging challenges’ to internal security. The security forces (SFs) are gearing-up to thwart any violence by Left Wing Extremi....

November 17, 2024 Jharkhand , Odisha , Maoists , Manipur , Arunachal Pradesh , Kuki , Maharashtra , NSCN , Internal Security Monitor , Bhima , Koregaon , Elgar , Parishad , Jammu Kashmir , KYKL

Restructuring Power Equation: Rise of Indigenists means fall of Communism in Nepal

Prof Hari Bansh Jha Article

Ever since the end of the autocratic Rana regime in Nepal in 1951, the country has had seven constitutions. Yet, none of the constitutions survived for more than a decade or so in this country. During the last seven decades, the country witnessed dif....

January 13, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Article , Nepali Congress , CPN-UML , Constitution , Maoists , Madhesis , Janjatis , communists

India’s Maoists: Utility of Counterinsurgency and Futility of Talks

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

There was a flurry of analyses in the wake of the 03 April 2021 clash between India’s Security Forces [SFs] and the Maoist insurgents at the Sukma-Bijapur border region in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.¹²³

April 30, 2021 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , chhattisgarh , Sukma , Abujhmaad , CAPFs , COIN , foreign arms , IEDs , Mazumdar , MHA , SAMADHAN , WHAM

India’s Maoists: Business as usual

Dr P V Ramana Commentary

It has been business as usual for Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), even as the country has been fighting the challenge of COVID-19 pandemic. Incidents of violence by the Maoists, efforts at shoring–up their arsenal and extortion,....

June 18, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , weapons , Maoists , chhattisgarh , Extortion , Sukma

The Maoists, Violence, and their ‘Alternate Revolutionary Programme’

Dr Uddipan Mukherjee Article

As human beings distance away from each other to deny the corona virus any additional mass and volume, the left-wing insurgents in India's dense jungles converge into south Bastar in central India from neighbouring provinces as well as from Nepal

May 06, 2020 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Maoists , Violence , ideology , Charu Mazumdar , CPI (M) , Lenin , Marx , Mao Tse-tung , New Democratic State , dictatorship of the proletariat

The Nexus of Terror and Ideology : Scourge of Naxalism in India

Shekhar Dutt

Independence may have firmed up the geographic expanse of India but it failed to stabilise the ‘concept’ of India. Constitutionally we have taken our diversity seriously and the representative form of our democracy has further made our divisions ....

August 21, 2017 Leftwing Extremism , National Security and Strategic Studies , West Bengal , Naxalism in India , Andhra Pradesh , Telengana , Jharkhand , Odisha , Maoists , insurgency , governance

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