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Adivasis Naxalites and Indian Democracy

by Vandana agrawal | July 26, 2008 at 09:16 pm

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इतिहासकार रामचंद्र गुहा का यह आलेख इस तथ्य को स्थापित करता है कि भारत में विकास और लोकतंत्र का लाभ छह दशकों के दौरान समूचे आदिवासी समाज को सबसे कम प्राप्त हुआ है और उसने सबसे ज्यादा गंवाया है. आदिवासियों के बीच नक्सली प्रभाव के कारणों की पड़ताल के बाद यह आलेख निष्कर्ष देता है कि आदिवासी भारत के मौजूदा दौर में दो त्रासदियों का शिकार बन कर रह गया है. पहली त्रासदी यह है कि राज्य ने अपने ही आदिवासी नागरिकों के प्रति अहसान भरा नज़रिया रखते हुए उपेक्षापूर्ण व्यवहार किया है, और दूसरी यह कि उनके संरक्षक माने जाने वाले नक्सलियों के पास भी उनके लिए कोई दीर्घकालिक समाधान मौजूद नहीं है.

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at 23:25 on July 26th, 2008

Vandana agrawal, I like this story. It's good stuff.

if you could put english commentary on the matter it would help.It is an important issue and their can be no justification for naxalites come what may.Communist belief in violence is way out in present times.

Vandana agrawal

at 10:01 on July 28th, 2008

Dear friend, this is the summary of the article-

Adivasis, Naxalites and Indian Democracy

This essay argues that adivasis as a whole have gained least and lost most from six decades of democracy and development in India. It presents evidence that they are even more deprived than the dalits. However, unlike the dalits, they have been unable to effectively articulate their grievances through the democratic and electoral process. The failures of the state and of the formal political system have provided a space for Maoist revolutionaries to move into. After analysing the reasons for the rise of “Naxalite” influence, the essay concludes that there is a double tragedy at work in tribal India. The first tragedy is that the state has treated its adivasi citizens with contempt and condescension. The second tragedy is that their presumed protectors, the Naxalites, offer no long-term solution either.