Comrades and Comebacks: The Battle of the Left to Win the Indian Mind
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The history of Left politics in India runs deep into the very heart of the freedom struggle. It can hardly be denied that both the freedom struggle and the political landscape of free India was, for the longest time, hued in various shades of red. Peculiarly, Leftism in India has developed in close ties with the culture in which it was rooted. A movement consisting of diverse forces----with moderate socialists at one end of the spectrum and extremist or revolutionary communists at the other----T...