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Windows into a Revolution
India and Nepal have had people across the country mobilized in protracted guerrilla war aimed at annihilating class enemies, creating liberated zones and seizing state power through the barrel of the gun. Despite differences, there are significant reasons for treating the Indian and Nepali experiences together. In India, massive state repression, which included the imprisonment of most of the Naxalite leaders, as well as factionalism within the Maoist ranks, meant that by 1973 Maoist activity in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal had largely subsided. Most notably, in the mid-1990s, the Andhra Pradesh State Government set up brutal special police forces, not accountable to any law, for eliminating Maoists. The Maoists faced a different fate in Nepal. Against the backdrop of a strong monarchy, the 1970s and the 1980s saw the various communist factions in Nepal fighting for a multi-party democracy to achieve a new people's democracy.
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