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Rebels From The Mud Houses: Dalits and The Making of The Maoist Revolution in Bihar

Authors (s): George J. Kunnath (Author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9788187358527
Pages: xviii+247pp., Illustrations; Maps; 23cm.
Pub. date: 04.02.2012, 1st ed.
Publisher: Orient BlackSwan Private Limited
Language (s): English
Bagchee ID: BB70912
List price: $ 59,00
Bagchee price: $ 53,10
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Overview for Rebels From The Mud Houses: Dalits and The Making of The Maoist Revolution in Bihar

Dalits participate in the Maoist Movement in a variety of ways - as party cadres, guerrilla fighters, loyal suppliers of food and shelter, and as both active and passive members of a host of revolutionary mass organizations.

Why did the Dalits of the Magadh region of South Bihar and, in particular, the district of Jehanabad, infamously termed ‘the killing fields’ join the Maoist Movement? Were they trapped between two fires-the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary violence? Did all Dalit castes support the Maoists or was there any particular Dalit caste at the forefront of the struggle? What did they achieve through the Maoist Movement? What reasons do they give for their current state of demobilization? Rebels from the Mud Houses: Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and participated in the Maoist Movement. It explores the dynamic nature of Dalit response which involved a movement from relative quiescence to mobilization and armed resistance, and eventually, to demobilization and alternative assertions based on caste identities.

Rebels from the Mud Houses highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.

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