Watch | Maoist Insurgency and the Indian State’s Response

Dr Happymon Jacob speaks with Niranjan Sahoo, (the author of Politics of Power Sector Reforms in India and Reservation Policy and its Implementation across Domains in India: An Analytical Review) about the Maoist insurgency in India with reference to his recently published paper titled “Half a Century of India’s Maoist Insurgency: An Appraisal of State Response".

Sahoo provides a historical overview of the Naxalite movement and speaks about the major course of events that posited it as the “single-biggest threat” to the Indian State by the mid-2000s.

He speaks about the Indian state’s counterinsurgency approach and also addresses controversies regarding state-sponsored vigilante group Salwa Judum and the debate surrounding the so-called “Urban Naxals".

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