Kennedy, J;
(2014)
Gangsters or Gandhians? The Political Sociology of the Maoist Insurgency in India.
India Review
, 13
(3)
212 - 234.
10.1080/14736489.2014.937268.
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Abstract
This article combines concepts from political sociology with evidence from newspaper reports, insurgent and state documents, and ethnographic studies in order to understand the nature of the Maoist insurgency in India. The first section argues that the insurgency should be conceptualized as a state building enterprise rather than organized crime. It demonstrates that both insurgent violence and fundraising serve, on the whole, the collective interests of the state building enterprise – i.e., to consolidate insurgent control in their base areas – rather than the private interests of individual insurgents. The second section seeks to understand how Maoist state builders undermine and fragment the Indian state’s monopoly of the means of violence and administration in areas where they operate. In some areas the state is totally absent, while in others the state forms alliances with the insurgents at the local level in order to maintain the semblance of a sovereign and democratic ruler.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Gangsters or Gandhians? The Political Sociology of the Maoist Insurgency in India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14736489.2014.937268 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2014.937268 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published with license by Taylor & Francis© Jonathan Kennedy This is an Open Access article. Non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, is permitted. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469550 |
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