Aditya Nigam on the rumours of Maoism

Perhaps an indirect response to Arundhati Roy's article of the previous post, after several strange responses in Kafila. From Rumours of Maoism:

"....it would appear that it is rather the frenzied drive towards development that is breeding Maoist politics.
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It is important to understand that, at one level, it is not Maoism that is really at issue here, as both the state and the Maoist-aligned intellectuals would have us believe. It is really Indian democracy that is at issue. I have argued elsewhere that a deep split structures the Indian polity – a split between ’sovereignty’ and the rule of the extraordinary and the impulse of democracy.

The rule of the extraordinary, as evidenced in the rule through laws like AFSPA or UAPA/POTA/TADA on the one hand, and the indiscriminate manner in which violence becomes the primary mode of dealing with social struggles and dissent on the other, now structures our politics. Thus, even while Indian democracy can become the vehicle for the political rise of the dalits and lower castes, the seduction of violence at its peripheries always remains powerful for that is precisely where democracy gives way to a complete lawlessness of the Law."
P.S. related articles:
Endless Loop from The Hindu about the documentary "Delayed Justice" by Shriprakash:
"Delayed Justice” poignantly captures how the Forest Rights Act, in spite of being a radical one on paper, is seriously flawed in implementation… Filmmaker Shriprakash talks about his documentary to Meena Menon. "
Redressing 'historic injustice' through Forest Rights Act 2006: A Historical Institutional analysis of contemporary forest rights reform IPPG (Research Programme Consorttium for improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth)Discussion Paper Number twenty-seven.