Remembering revolution : gender, violence, and subjectivity in India's Naxalbari movement

Remembering revolution : gender, violence, and subjectivity in India's Naxalbari movement / Srila Roy.

This text explores the production of cultural memory in relation to women's involvement in the late 1960s' radical Naxalbari movement of West Bengal. Drawing from historiographic, popular and personal memoirs, it provides an innovative conceptual analysis of the Naxalbari movement principa...

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Main Author: Roy, Srila
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Naxalite movement.
Sex discrimination > India.
Naxalite movement
Sex discrimination
Gewalt.
Naxaliten.
India
Indien.
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Table of Contents:
  • Remembering revolution : an introduction
  • 1. Mapping the Movement, situating the study
  • 2. Gendering the revolution : official and popular imaginary
  • 3. Everyday life in the underground
  • 4. Bhalobasha, Biye, Biplab : on the politics of sexual stories
  • 5. Sexual violence and the politics of naming
  • 6. Political violence, trauma, and healing
  • Conclusion: Mourning revolution.

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