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...subject of Rudolph's talk was the "Kerala situation." The smallest of the Indian states, Kerala elected a Communist government in 1957. This marked the first time Communism as a political force has assumed power through electoral processes within a constitutional system...
...same Prime Minister, Nehru; the same ruling party, the Congress Party; the same governing philosophy, democratic socialism. Unlike most nations from the Mediterranean to the China Sea, India is not seriously threatened by a revolutionary group or a military clique. Communists rule one state, Kerala, but are having troubles there, and have made surprisingly little headway among the mass of peasants and workers. Across India, steel mills are going up, cities expanding, the red earth being diligently gouged for canals, dams, roads. Among the young, caste distinctions are losing importance, and some Brahman students even do special tutoring among their...
These beatings and shootings, which sent a shudder of shock and disgust through all India last week, took place in the steamy, waterlogged southwestern state of Kerala, the Indian state under the rule of an elected Communist government. Trouble started in a series of scuffles between students and police in the coastal district of Alleppey over the restoration of a one-anna (2?) student fare on the ferryboats. In the days that followed, hundreds of students, also protesting against higher tuitions and Communist textbooks in the schools, were hustled off to jail, and some were beaten senseless. Then political demonstrators...
...Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboodiripad cried out-as had Khrushchev at the time of the Hungarian revolt-that the strikers and students were being misled by agents provocateurs. The Communist weekly tabloid Blitz haltingly explained away police bru tality in Kerala by claiming that the police were "trained in a tradition of unbridled repression, of which Communists were the main target during the former feudal rule," and had not got over their old ways. The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party issued a 1,200-word resolution which concluded that the shooting down...
Opposition to the Kerala Communists mounted rapidly. Many of the student rioters were Roman Catholics (Kerala has the largest Christian population of any state in India) determined to fight Communist encroachment in the schools. Following a call for a statewide hartal, or general strike, by the Congress Party and their Socialist allies, some 10,000 dock workers left their jobs in the port of Cochin. Bazaars and factories throughout the state closed for a day. Students stayed away from school. Strikes, demonstrations and picketing erup.ted in town after town. The harried Communists, who had so often employed these same tactics...