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Volume 84 – No. 2

What is going on in India’s “red corridor”? Questions about India’s Maoist insurgency

John Harriss
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Keywords: Indian Maoism; insurgency; guerilla movements; rural protest; dispossession

DOI: 10.5509/2011842309

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Drawing on the small number of recent ethnographic studies, on reports by human rights activists, and on some reports by journalists, this paper explores reasons for the strength of the Maoist insurgency across the “red corridor”: a large tract of India, from the border with Nepal through to the south.

印度的“紅色走廊”怎麼啦?印度的毛派叛亂問題

本文使用近期的一些民族志研究、人權運動報告、以及新聞報道探討北起尼泊爾邊境南至印度南部的”紅色走廊”一帶毛派叛亂興盛的原因。本文主張,雖然弗爾倫和萊廷等人開拓的”可行性論”以及近來關於內戰和叛亂決定因素的一般理論具有一定的解釋力,冤屈的重要性,尤其是在印度中部的部落人中,也是顯而易見的。雖然毛派並不總是該地區反抗眾多的已實現的或試圖的徵用的抵抗運動的驅動者,他們卻似乎對抵抗運動持同情態度,並經常控訴國家的所作所為 (如鼓勵開礦、基礎設施和工業項目的土地徵用)及其無所作為(如在提供基礎服務方面)。雖然出租印度中部丰富的礦產和森林資源所帶來的利益在這一故事中的確佔據一定的位置,”貪婪”假設卻得到較少的支持。毛派響應人民的心聲,但他們的支持行動卻可能與他們想奪取國家政權的宏觀策略性抱負相矛盾,而由此可能引發的螺旋式上昇的暴力也許會導致他們背叛其宣稱要支持的人。

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