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Half Man : A Novel on the Naxal Movement

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Item Code: NAT983
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Author: Asim Mukhopadhyay
Language: ENGLISH
Edition: 2019
ISBN: 9789386906977
Pages: 272
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50 X 5.50 inch
Weight 340 gm
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About the Book

Asim Mukhopadhyay's Half Man goes to the very heart of the Naxalite Movement in Bengal, with special emphasis on the infamous Cossipore-Baranagar massacres in north east Calcutta in August 1971. The novel also focuses on the horrifying repression of lakhs of displaced people in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra during the Namrmada Bachao Andolan in Gujarat. In the novel, the massacres are witnessed by an innocent village youth of south BEnagal, semi-literate but intelligent and wise beyond his years through his experiences, poor but courageous, who is torturedm, humiliated, thrown out of his village and chased from one place to another and is ultimately turned into a social activist who realises that the tail of the gecko is not the system. The people are the system. They must be changed, in their way of living, thinking and fighting evil. This is a hard-hitting and brutally honest effort to focus light on India’s teeming dll are kept forcibly hidden by vested interests.

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About the Author

Asim Mukhopadhyay is a veteran researcher, teacher and consultant-cum-contributor on socio-economic and political situations in India and Bangladesh to various newspapers and journals such as The Indian Express, Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), and Frontier (Kolkata). He is continuing his research on the depressed communities, mainly the tribals, semi-tribals, minorities, with special emphasis on marginal farmers, artisans, the urban poor living on city pavements and scrounging garbage dumps as ragpickers. An MA in modern history from Jadavpur University (1966), Kolkata and a PhD from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (1991) on political economy in Bangladesh in the 1970s, he has authored several books in Bengali and English on child labourers in the beedi industry, terracotta temples of West Bengal, documents on the Bangladesh Liberation Movements, women’s participation in local self-governance (the Panchayati Raj), peasants’ struggles in India (he has contributed a chapter to Peasant Struggles in India, edited by Prof A.R. Desai, published by Oxford University Press, 1979). This is his debut novel.

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