The
Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) was one of the largest two armed Maoist groups in India, and fused with the other, the
People's War Group in September 2004, to form the
Communist Party of India .
Dakshin Desh
When the
Communist Party of India was founded in
1969, rallying various
Maoist tendencies into a unified organization, some groups retained a separate identity and remained outside of CPI(ML). One such group was nicknamed
Dakshin Desh, after the name of its publication. The group had begun publishing
Dakshin Desh in along Maoist lines. The group was joined by a sector of
trade union activists.Basu, Pradip.
Towards Naxalbari (1953-1967) – An Account of Inner-Party Ideological Struggle.
Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 2000. p. 83.
Dakshin Desh is
Hindi for 'Southern Land' (implied in this naming was that India was the 'Southern land' whereas
China was the corresponding 'Northern land').
Amulaya Sen and
Kanai Chatterjee were the leading figures of the
Dakshin Desh-group. In difference to CPI(ML), whose policies of armed struggle bordered
individual terrorism, the
Dakshin Desh-group upheld that mass mobilisations were requisites for engaging in armed struggle. The group began armed activities in the
Jangal Mahal area,
Burdwan district,
West Bengal, where
Dalits and
Adivasis constituted large sections of the local population. The territory was covered with deep forests, considered ideal for
guerrilla warfare. The group formed political militia...
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