1st Edition
From Popular Movements to Rebellion The Naxalite Decade
1. From Popular Movements to Rebellion: Introducing the Naxalite Decade Section I: Prelude to the Storm: Bengal in the Fifties and Sixties 2. The Refugee Movement as a Founding Moment of Popular Movements in Post-independent West Bengal 3. Anti-Tram Fare Rise Movement and Teachers’ Movement in Calcutta, 1953–54 4. The Defining Moments of Left Popular Politics in West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 and 1966 Section II: The Naxalite Decade 5. The Artisans of Revolt: Peasant Activists of Naxalbari 6. Repertoires and Politics in the Time of Naxalbari 7. The Prairie Fire Spreads I: Medinipur 8. The Prairie Fire Spreads II: Birbhum 9. Occupy College Street: Notes from the Sixties 10. The Culture Battle 11. Spring Thunder and The Dialectic of Critique 12. The Naxalite Decade Comes to a Close, but Land Question Persists Section III: The Decade in Bihar 13. Bihar in 1974: Possibilities and Limits of a Popular Movement 14. Bihar in the Sixties and Seventies: The Enigmatic Figure of Karpoori Thakur 15. Reports: Rural Poor and the Armed Rebels of Bihar, 1960–70s Section IV: The Cultural Struggle: A Small Anthology 16. Introducing the Anthology 17. The Palpable Reality of Fiction 18. Ani 19. Midnight Knock 20. Corpse Worship 21. Human Gems 22. Homecoming 23. Release Them 24. Reportage
Biography
Ranabir Samaddar holds the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, and is a political thinker and one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies.
