Assignment: India's Maoist Insurgency

Published: June 10, 2010, 8:06 a.m.

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The Indian government is engaged in its biggest ever offensive against Maoist insurgents in Jharkand state in eastern India. Large swathes of the territory are under rebel control and access to the area is rare. British Anthropologist Alpa Shah has visited a Maoist-controlled region in Jharkand and this is her unique portrait of day to day life in some of the region's poorest villages.

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