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Author Paul, Bappaditya, author.

Title The first Naxal : an authorised biography of Kanu Sanyal / Bappaditya Paul.

Publication Info. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages .)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 -- Beginning from the End; 2 -- Days at the School; 3 -- Drift to Politics; 4 -- Partition, Independence and Matriculation; 5 -- At College: Beginning of a Political Quest; 6 -- Ban on CPI: The Birth of a Rebel; 7 -- Meeting Charu Mazumdar: Destiny's First Glance; 8 -- Off to Village: The Real Beginning; 9 -- Asserting Farmers' Rights: Time for Action; 10 -- Land Reforms: The Differences Within; 11- Sino-India War and the Split in CPI; 12 -- Differences with Charu Mazumdar and the Chathat Experiment; 13 -- Outbreak of Naxalbari Movement.
14 -- Off to China and Meeting Mao Tse-tung15 -- Formation and Disintegration of CPI-ML; 16 -- Release from Jail and the Beginning of a New Struggle; 17 -- Revolution versus Terrorism: Nandigram to Lalgarh; 18 -- Private Life; 19 -- Rebel Who Did Not Return Home; Photographs; Glossary; The Life and Times of Kanu Sanyal: A Chronology; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
Summary It seldom happens that the story of an individual becomes so intertwined with the cause she or he stands for that it becomes impossible to separate the one from the other. Kanu Sanyal's is one such rare story: to read it is to relive the history of the Naxalite Movement, which the Indian establishments call the country's biggest internal security threat. This book narrates the making of Kanu Sanyal right from his childhood to the days of the Naxalbari uprising and beyond. It delves deep into Sanyal's evolution as a Communist rebel and throws light o.
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Subject Sanyal, Kanu, 1929-2010.
Sanyal, Kanu, 1929-2010.
Communist Party of India.
Communist Party of India.
Communists -- India -- Biography.
Communists.
India.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Naxalite movement.
Naxalite movement.
Communism -- India -- History.
Communism.
History.
India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1947-
Since 1947
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Paul, Bappaditya. First Naxal. 9788132117872 8132117875 (DLC) 2014007492
ISBN 9351501094 (electronic book)
9789351501091 (electronic book)
9788132117872 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
8132117875 (paperback ; alkaline paper)