Reportage Politics

The Dream That Failed

Voices of Naxalbari across the 50 years since the uprising

01 June 2017
A Bengali edition of ‘Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong’ was published in Beijing in 1968, and copies of it found their way to some activists in the Naxalite movement.
RONNY SEN FOR THE CARAVAN
A Bengali edition of ‘Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong’ was published in Beijing in 1968, and copies of it found their way to some activists in the Naxalite movement.
RONNY SEN FOR THE CARAVAN

Bigul Kisan

1987

I used to grow crops in the fields of Ishwar Tirkey. I had gone to take control of that land in accordance with the decision by the Krishak Sabha. But the goons of the landlord attacked me in the fields of Lahari Bura. They nearly crushed my head. They also took away my plough and oxen. In protest, peasants under the leadership of Prahlad Singh and Muzibur Rahman attacked the house of the landlord. The police came and arrested many on charges of rioting.

Nazes Afroz is former executive editor for BBC World Service, South and Central Asia. He has been visiting Afghanistan regularly since 2002 and has co-authored a cultural guidebook on Afghanistan.

Keywords: communism West Bengal Maoist Naxalbari Naxalite movement CPI (ML) Charu Majumder
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