Internal Security for Civil Services Main Examinations - GS Paper III

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Naxalism

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

♦	Naxalism – the genesis

(a)	Telangana struggle
(b)	Post-Telangana struggle
(c)	A violent dawn – emergence of Naxalism

♦	Naxalism – an evolution
♦	Causes for the rise of Naxalism
♦	Initiatives by individual states
♦	Reasons for its survival
♦	Strategy of the Naxals
♦	Constitution of the Maoists
♦	Recruitment process of the Naxals
♦	Naxal training and structure
♦	Recent Naxal attacks
♦	Government response

(a)	Anti-Naxal operations
(b)	Surrender policies
(c)	Socio-economic measures

♦	Andhra Pradesh model

NAXALISM – THE GENESIS

To understand the genesis of the Naxalite movement, one has to look at it through the lens of the Communist Movement ...