reading on India and the communist movement

S. Irfan Habib, To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades, Three Essays Collective (Haryana), 2007

Charles Wesley Ervin, Tomorrow Is Ours: The Trotskyist Movement in India and Ceylon, 1935-48, Social Scientists' Association (Colombo), 2006 (a clear, sympathetic history)

Y. Ranjith Amarasinghe, Revolutionary Idealism and Parliamentary Politics: A Study of Trotskyism in Sri Lanka, Social Scientists' Association (Colombo), 1998

T. J. Nossiter, Marxist State Governments in India: Politics, Economics and Society, Pinter Publishers (London and New York), 1988

Paul R. Brass and Marcus F. Franda, Radical Politics in South Asia, MIT Press, 1973

G. Adhikari (editor), Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India, volume 1 (1917-23), volume 2 (1923-25), People's Publishing House, 1970

George J. Lerski, Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon, Hoover Institution, 1968

Selig S. Harrison, India: The Most Dangerous Decades, Princeton UP, 1960 (by a CIA researcher)

Gene D. Overstreet and Marshall Windmiller, Communism in India, University of California Press, 1959 (a comprehensive, anti-Communist account)

David N. Druhe, Soviet Russia and Indian Communism, 1917-1947, with an Epilogue Covering the Situation Today, Bookman Associates, 1959

E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, volume 3: 1917-1923, Penguin (1953) (covers Second Congress, Fourth Congress, Baku)


The Telangana Struggle

Inukopnda Thirumali, Against Dora and Nizam: People's Movement in Telangana 1939-1948, Kanishka, New Dehli, 2003 (a good, sympathetic account)

Stree Shakti Sanghatana, 'We Were Making History': Women and the Telangana Uprising, Zed Books, 1989

Barry Pavier, The Telgana Movement 1944-51, Vikas Publishing, New Dehli, 1981

K. Ranga Rao, "Peasant Movement in Telangana," in Social Movements in India, M.S.A. Rao (ed.), Manohar, 1984


Naxalism:

Sudeep Chakravarti, Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country, Viking/Penguin Books India, 2008

Rabindra Ray, The Naxalites and Their Ideology, Oxford UP, 1988

Sumanta Banerjee, In the Wake of Naxalbari: A History of the Naxalite Movement in India, Subarnarekha, Calcutta, 1980