Book Review - Manoranjan Mohanty, Red and Green: Five Decades of the Indian Maoist Movement (Kolkata, Setu Prakashani, 2015)

The book under review examines the evolution of the Naxalite Movement in India from pre-organisational in the first decade of its existence to the current stage of the CPI (Maoist) as an organised movement that has been described by the former Indian Prime Minister as the “greatest internal security threat faced by the country.” This book contains in part one, an in-depth analysis of the peasant uprising in Naxalbari and Srikakulam within a four dimensional theoretical framework of revolutionary environment, ideology, organisation and strategy and examining its parallels with the Chinese revolution.