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- In southern Chhattisgarh and its bordering areas in Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, guerilla platoons are being wiped out in security offensives.
- 1928, Mao Zedong, a central committee member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), presented the idea of an agrarian, ‘protracted people’s war’ for the Chinese revolution.
- The first fruits of the Mao-inspired land, crop and wage-related agrarian armed struggle came in the revolts in Telangana (1946-51) in south India and Bengal in eastern India (1946-51).
Muppala Lakshmana Rao must be quite a restless man now. 2025 has been the worst year for India’s Maoist rebels, who launched a mission to overthrow the Indian State through an armed, agrarian revolution way back in 1967. Known to the world as Ganapathi, Rao is one of the architects of the revival of Left-wing insurgency in India, after the first wave of the Maoist aka Naxalite movement faltered in the early 1970s. Over time, the Indian Maoists became one of the largest and most lethal Left-wing armed groups in the world, perhaps second only to the western Asia’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). |
