![]() The book has some rare photographs and ends with newspaper clippings from the period. The book also carries six powerful short stories written during the Naxalite Decade and which are palpably true to life of the times. Ranabir Samaddar says that, the Naxalite Movement has been denied a history. Some of the essays are deeply reflective about why the movement failed and was at the end alienated. Many of the chapters of the book bring out for the first time unknown peasant heroes and heroines of that era, analyses the nature of the urban revolt, and shows how the urban revolt of that time anticipated street protests and occupy movements that were to shake the world forty-fifty years later. From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond our understanding. ![]()
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