Title: Remembering revolution : gender, violence, and subjectivity in India's Naxalbari movement /
Authors: Roy, Srila.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Naxalite movement India.; Sex discrimination against women India; Naxalite movement.; Sex discrimination India.
Abstract: 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 principally in terms of gender, violence, and subjectivity.
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.