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A War in the heart of India


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A War in the Heart of India Ramachandra Guha In the history of independent India, the most bloody conflicts have taken place in the most beautiful locations. Consider Kashmir, whose enchantments have been celebrated by countless poets down the ages, as well as by rulers from the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to the first prime minister of free India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Or Nagaland and Manipur, whose mist-filled hills and valleys have been rocked again and again by the sound of gunfire. To this melancholy list of lovely places wracked by civil war must now be added Bastar, a hilly, densely forested part of central India largely inhabited by tribal people. In British times Bastar was an autonomous princely state, overseen with a gentle hand by its ruler, the representative on earth--so his subjects believed--of the goddess Durga. After independence, it came to form part of the state of Madhya Pradesh and, when that state was bifurcated in 1998, of Chattisgarh (a name that means "thirty-six forts," presumably a reference to structures once maintained by medieval rulers). The forts that dot Chattisgarh now take the form of police camps run by the modern, and professedly democratic, Republic of India. For the state is at the epicenter of a war being waged between the government and Maoist guerrillas. And within Chattisgarh, the battle rages most fiercely in Bastar. Read the entire article at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070716/guha

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Who is this guy Ramchandra Guha?...guess he got his "lifafa" for conducting this media psy-op upon readers. While he takes all the pain explaining that tribals have NO link with Hindu pantheon, I think evangelical lifafa is working well here so that conversion of tribals can be seen as a noble cause...disgusting! This shameless writer has happily ignored what "nature" worship of trees etc. by tribals is all about. At the same time, in his article there is little mention of the main ideological evil behind Maoism --the Communist Parties of India. These communist scumbags fully support maoists and still remian in power as a political party....they are traitors in simple words...This is height of helplessness in Indian freedom and democracy structure. And then there are these western media vultures who pray upon poverty stricken parts of India.

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IF people like Guha had their way they will declare people likle me a non-hindu too.. Freaking every second religious ritual in my village has got sthg to do with nature worship..

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