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The American civil war, the Indian independence struggle, the end of South Africa’s apartheid, all began with dissatisfaction with the status quo. India, with its huge cultural diversity, has always been susceptible to brewing dissatisfactions of various hues. According to current figures, anywhere between 150 and 250 districts, in more than fifteen states, are affected by Maoist violence. On the surface, one would feel that it is again an ideological fight but scratching further, one would discover that ideology has been spawned by the force of circumstance and most of the players, inhabiting nearly forty percent of India’s territory, are just caught up in a maelstrom of events and consequences beyond their control.
That the Maoist movement has managed to find a broad based appeal is symptomatic of a systemic malaise within the nation, its administration and the society. Instead of trying to find fault with the rebels, the country will be better served by those who try to find the reasons for its spread. And let us not give undue importance to the rabble rousing, self-serving ideologues but let us talk about the common citizen, who has no desire to take sides with any ideology and just wants to live a life of peace and plenty. In the last sixty years or so since independence the quality of life of the ordinary citizen has also improved considerably. Many Indians are living a life of comfort and access to resources that their predecessor generations might not even have thought possible. The benefits of progress however have failed to reach a vast majority of the so called Maoist infested populace and herein lies the rub.
A strange dichotomy is that the problem is endemic in some of the most natural resource rich states in the union but it is the denizens of these states that are struggling to find two square meals a day. The nation’s progress has bypassed most of them barring a few oasis of prosperity where a few cities have managed to keep up with the mainstream progress. In a land where caste barriers and resulting discrimination are nearly as rigid and rampant as they were centuries ago, and economic empowerment is lopsided, it is not difficult to find reasons for disenchantment with the democratic, socialist republic. For immense personal gains, corrupt politicians and opportunistic bureaucrats, colluding with greedy corporations have been exploiting the abundance of natural resources without sharing the spoils with the people of the land. The tribals, whose culture and existence is being threatened by the mining activities have been forced to take to the gun when there has been no restitution from the governance. Giving this struggle the name of clash of ideologies is unnecessary glamorization of the issue. Even if their struggle against state oppression succeeds in formation of an independent small nation, the liberators will turn oppressors and the wheel will have turned a full circle for the masses.