Published originally in 1980, In the Wake of Naxalbari, reissued in 1984 as The Simmering Revolution by Zed Books, London, has come to be recognized as one of the classics of contemporary revolutionary history from within. The Naxalite movement led in India by the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), or the CPI(M-L), as it was known then, saw the convergence of a series of peasant uprisings and urban and rural guerrilla actions, spread over large parts of India and neighbouring East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), between 1967 and the early 1970s. The most comprehensive study of the movement till date, the work began as investigative journalism, but Sumanta Banerjee, then a senior journalist, 'resigned from his job, joined the movement and was thrown in the company of its cadres. The unforgettable experience-although brief of living among poor, landless peasants, and sharing their adventures provided him with an invaluable opportunity to understand their problems, and gave him a new perspective on the entire history of the Naxalite movement." Updated with a new Introduction and a new Postscript, the third edition chronicles the movement in great detail, offering insightful profiles of its leaders and ideologues, and documenting the ideological debatés (often from unpublished and rarely accessible sources) that determined the twists and turns and crises of its tortuous course; especially in relation to its interactions with the politics of its time.
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