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001			19506531
010			_a 2016362433
020			_a9789386050922
082			_a 335.409225414 _bSWA/O
100	1		_aSwati Sengupta
245	1	0	_aOut of war : voices of surrendered Maoists
260			_aNew Delhi _bspeaking tiger _c2016
300			_a267 p.
520			_aOver the course of two intense years Swati Sengupta spoke to dozens of surrendered Maoist soldiers. In this book she focuses on their complex individual narratives and examines the reasons for, and the methods and contexts of, their surrenders. The disquieting voices of these foot-soldiers of the Maoist struggle reveal a harsh, on-the-edge world. Suman Maity gave up his family, friends and school at the age of thirteen to become an armed Maoist cadre. He quickly became a terror in the forested regions of West Midnapore but, ravaged by uncertainty and betrayal, he surrendered because he 'did not want to die in an encounter. Champa was shot in the arm when a police team swooped down and started firing while she was on sentry duty at her camp. She lost consciousness and woke up in a hospital under police custody. A portion of her arm is now simply a lump of flesh. When the police gave her the option of surrendering instead of facing arrest, she chose to surrender-and now survives with difficulty by running a tailoring shop. A disillusioned surrendered Maoist, whom the author met in Kondagaon, told her that the so-called 'camaraderie displayed in the camps is often faked for the media and the real conditions-which are actually neither equal nor congenial-are hidden away like 'family secrets. Out of War is an insightful, poignant and often disturbing book about an unrelenting conflict where, despite all the idealistic fervour, there is injustice, even brutality, on every side and the most vulnerable people pay the heaviest price.
650		0	_aNaxalite movement
650		0	_aCommunism
942			_cBK
999			_c62052 _d62052