![]() ![]() ![]() I now want to ask a rather off-beat question: do the leaders of Maoist movement and its student factions voluntarily discard their own status as member of "the elite" to join the armed revolution of oppressed sections or support them actively? This pre-fieldwork paper attempts to make sense of the pro-Naxalite commitments in selected contemporary Indian campuses in order to understand the meaning the youth give to their political affiliation. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ranajit Guha, social thinkers mostly attempted to identify structures of domination reflecting on the tyranny of the powerful and narrating the aspiration of individuals to attain broad so- cial acceptance, economic achievements and status recognition. ![]()
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