TY - BOOK AU - Kishalay Bhattacharjee TI - An unfinished revolution : a hostage crisis, adivasi resistance and the Naxal movement SN - 9789382616375 U1 - 303.3720954133 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Pan Macmillan KW - Naxalite movement KW - India--Kandhamal (District) KW - Politics and government KW - Indigenous peoples--Politics and government N2 - On 14 March 2012, two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and Claudio Colangelo, were taken hostage from the tribal-dominated Kandhamal area of Odisha, in eastern India. The kidnappers belonged to the extreme left- wing radical group known as the CPI (Maoists). They were led by Sabyasachi Panda who had been involved in several militant activities since 1999. What followed was a dramatic month-long crisis in which a crew of television journalists engaged with the Maoist leader and facilitated the release of Claudio. An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis, Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement is a racy, first-hand account that tells the tale of the hostages, from abduction to release. It also chronicles the history of tribal resistance which was appropriated by the Maoists — a movement that has been one of India’s major internal security challenges since the late 1960s ER -