ABSTRACT
Maoism is an articulation of left-wing extremism in India. It has evolved following the formation of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist-Leninist) in West Bengal in 1969 that led the Naxalbari Movement. Initially confined to West Bengal, the Naxalbari Movement gradually spread across the length and breadth of the country. Despite its failure to seize state power, the movement was a sharp comment on India’s state-led development programme, which was hardly adequate to bring about uniform economic development in India. Maoism is thus a continuity of Left radicalism in a meaningful way. Like its past counterpart, Maoism draws on the reinterpretation of Marxism-Leninism by Mao Tse-tung in the context of agricultural China. The aim of this chapter is to acquaint the readers with the organization and organizational network of the ultra-left wing CPI (Maoist). This chapter elaborates the principal theme in two ways: first, it will focus on the overall structure of the party and the provisional government (the Janathana Sarkar) that it has established in the so-called liberated zones in India. The second part of the chapter will concentrate on the Maoist organization in Orissa. Not only has this part dealt with the actual organizational structure of the party, it has also brought out how important leadership is in sustaining and expanding the Maoist ideological influence.
