After Armed Struggle: Indigenous Politics from Latin America to India

After Armed Struggle: Indigenous Politics from Latin America to India

Revolutionary movements rarely end heroically, a point underscored recently by India’s interior minister, Amit Shah. In the Indian parliament on March 30, he declared the country “Naxal-free,” referring to the end of a decades-long Maoist insurgency rooted in some of India’s poorest forest regions. Such claims risk mistaking the end of insurgency for resolution. More often, these endings mark a transition, leaving Indigenous communities to devel…