Table of Contents
List of Maps ix
Preface xi
Prologue: Dandakaranya, the Forest of Exile 1
I The Landscape of Resistance
1 Burnt Rice 7
2 Iron in the Soul 27
3 'Because I Want Peace' 48
4 The Maoist State 68
II Civil War
5 A 'Peaceful People's Movement' 89
6 Between Fear and Courage 112
7 The Sorrow of the Sabari 129
8 Border Crossings 148
9 Notes on an 'Operation' 162
10 The Renegade and the Rifleman 186
III Institutions on Trial
11 Security or Development? 219
12 The Amnesias of Democracy 238
13 The Rights and Wrongs of Human Rights 257
14 To Talk or Not to Talk? 279
15 The Propaganda Wars 291
16 Praying for Justice 310
17 The Legal Death and Reincarnation of the Salwa Judum 332
Epilogue: A New Compact 351
Notes 353
Appendices 377
Appendix 1 Official Data on Deaths in the State-Maoist Conflict in Chhattisgarh, 2005-16 378
Appendix 2 Timeline 380
Acronyms and Abbreviations 384
Glossary 388
Acknowledgements 393
Index 399