ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part analyzes some movements in Maharashtra that have concentrated their efforts not on immediately attacking the force available to government, but on more slowly undermining the government's legitimacy. The Naxalite movement in Srikakulam was the result of a disequilibrium that went uncorrected by the governmental elites. Since the nineteenth century, as people from the plains moved into the Agency areas, the objective economic condition of the tribals-the "environment"-was in a state of continual decline. While the government's first response to the Naxalites was violence, the government also recognized that its own failures had led to the disequilibrium. Acknowledging the need both to calm the girijans' anger and to maintain its legitimacy with the wider audience of Indian public opinion, the government set about instituting economic reform in the area where Naxalite violence had occurred.
