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Alcoholics anonymous: the maoist movement in Jharkhand, India / Shah, Alpa   Journal Article
Shah, Alpa Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract From millenarian movements to the spread of Hindu rightwing militancy, attacks on adivasi (or tribal) consumption of alcohol have gone hand-in-hand with the project of 'civilizing the savage'. Emphasizing the agency and consciousness of adivasi political mobilization, subaltern studies scholarship has historically depicted adivasis as embracing and propelling these reformist measures, marking them as a challenge to the social structure. This paper examines these claims through an analysis of the relationship between alcohol and the spread of the Maoist insurgency in Jharkhand, Eastern India. Similar to other movements of adivasi political mobilization, an anti-drinking campaign is part of the Maoist spread in adivasi areas. This paper makes an argument for focusing on the internal diversity of adivasi political mobilization-in particular intergenerational and gender conflicts-emphasizing the differentiated social meanings of alcohol consumption (and thus of prohibition), as well as the very different attitudes taken by adivasis towards the Maoist campaign. The paper thus questions the binaries of 'sanskritisation' versus adivasis assertion that are prevalent in subaltern studies scholarship, proposing an engagement with adivasi internal politics that could reveal how adivasi political mobilization contains the penetrations of dominant sanskritic values, limitations to those penetrations and other aspirations, such as the desire for particular notions of modernity.
Key Words India  Jharkhand  Maoist Movement  Tribal  Adivasi  Maoist 
Alcoholics 
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Naxalbari at its Golden Jubilee: : fifty recent books on the Maoist movement in India / Shah, Alpa ; Jain, Dhruv   Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract There are not many other issues in South Asia that have attracted as much scholarly attention in the last decade as India's Naxalite or Maoist movement. At least 50 scholarly or political books, several novels, and numerous essays have been published since 2007. What we hope to do in this article is to ask why this movement has generated such attention at this moment in time, to analyse the commentaries that have emerged and the questions that have been asked, and also to identify some of the shortfalls in the existing literature and propose some lines of research to be pursued by future scholars.
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Nightmarch: a journey into India's naxal heartlands / Shah, Alpa 2018  Book
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Publication Noida, HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Description xxiv, 327p.hbk
Standard Number 9789353023867
Key Words Guerrillas  India  Naxalism  Naxalite  Professional Revolutionary 
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