Labelling Dalits and Adivasis as Maoists is an old state strategy for crushing dissent and criticism

Labelling Dalits and Adivasis as Maoists is an old state strategy for crushing dissent and criticism

Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde

In ‘Republic of Caste’, published this year, Anand Teltumbde writes about how Maoist and Naxalite labels make Dalits and Adivasis even more vulnerable.
Despite its mode of expression, the much-maligned Naxalite movement is essentially an act of dissent, a public protest, a fact occasionally acknowledged by the government itself, although the actions of the latter never reflect this admission.
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