ABSTRACT
Abujmarh was portrayed as the military HQ of the deadly Maoist insurgency. A Maadia tribal, he had joined the Maoist Jan Militia three years earlier. The ambiguous story of the Maoist insurgency and India’s tribal crisis cannot be understood properly unless Abujmarh is really breached the way it needs to be: with layered understanding. The Gram Sarkar Adhyaksh is a key piece of the Maoist hierarchy and strategy. The real tragedy of the Maoist crisis is that it has been reduced to a competition of equally false stories. In effect, the Maoists’ area dominance of the Abujmarh story is only 10 years old. Tehelka has been reporting the Maoist crisis extensively from the ground ever since the Salwa Judum began to escalate tension in Chhattisgarh. The Maoist sarkar thinks they have become police informers. For the Indian State, one of the key challenges of confronting the Maoist insurgency is to distinguish between ordinary tribal and ideologue.
