Is India looking at the end of a protracted insurgency that began in the late 1960s, when desperate peasants in the West Bengal hamlet of Naxalbari raided the granaries of their landlord? Niranjan Sahoo’s paper analyses 50 years of state response to the Maoist insurgency, and finds that Left-wing extremism in India is in terminal decline owing to both law-and-order mechanisms and development instruments.
Anuradha Mitra Chenoy, former Dean, School of International Relations, JNU; and co-author, ‘Maoist and Other Armed Conflicts’
Harsh V. Pant, Director, Strategic Studies Programme, ORF
Mahendra Kumawat, former Director General, Border Security Forces
Niranjan Sahoo, Senior Fellow, ORF
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Registration
11:30 – 11:35 a.m. | Welcome remarks by chair | Harsh V. Pant
11:35 – 11:55 a.m. | Presentation | Niranjan Sahoo
11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. | Remarks | Anuradha Mitra Chenoy
12:10 – 12:25 p.m. | Remarks | Mahendra Kumawat
12:25 – 12:55 p.m. | Moderated Q&A
12:55 – 1:00 p.m. | Closing remarks by chair
1:00 p.m. | Lunch
