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...recently took power through elections, are different. They want to overthrow the government in New Delhi and install a new one, and they have taken their fight to the geographic heart of the country, to the scrubby woodland and remote, poor villages that blanket a huge chunk of central India. The would-be revolutionaries trace their roots back to 1967, when a group of activists split away from India's mainstream Communist Party and initiated a peasant uprising in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari. The Naxalite movement grew quickly and attracted landless laborers and student intellectuals, but a government...
...form the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The combined force - which Indian government security officials and independent analysts now estimate at between 10,000 and 20,000 armed fighters plus at least 50,000 active supporters - has quickly consolidated power across great swathes of India's poorest regions. The central government, which lists the Naxalites as a banned terrorist group, says that 11 of India's 28 states are now affected in one way or another by the insurgency. Nongovernment organizations put the number of affected states even higher. The rebels tax local villagers, extort payments from businesses, abduct...
...Maoism's methods are no gentle wake-up call. India's Naxalites have taken to heart Mao Zedong's maxim that "the seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution," killing and abducting enemies and using coercion and force to win support among the very same villagers they claim to be liberating. To protest state "exploitation," the Maoists regularly order farmers in their regions to stop growing food or to raise the sale prices for certain items. Farmers who defy such bans have been summarily...
...recruits and to rearm and retrain existing police officers, New Delhi has massively increased funding over the past few years. But much of this money - 45% last year - goes unspent and coordination between state police and the better-equipped and better-trained paramilitary units sent by the central government to help in the worst-hit areas is weak. "Often, our forces are not even called out [by the state police]," complains A. P. Maheshwari, inspector general of operations for the Central Reserve Police Force in New Delhi. (India's Home Minister agreed to be interviewed for this story but repeatedly...
...central government has begun training state police in jungle warfare at a new college in Chhattisgarh. More than 6,500 police officers have learned better shooting skills, how to move in thick forest, how to survive on bush food and how to take on enemy fighters in hand-to-hand combat. But the flamboyant head of the college, Brigadier B.K. Ponwar says that no matter how much police officers improve their skills, the key remains winning the support of the masses. "Look at Iraq," he says. "I tell my students that their most important objective is to win people...