Cover illustration: “A Naxalite guerilla army in Central India”, n.d. Found in Spencer Leonard and Sunit Singh, “The Maoist insurgency in India: End of the road for Indian Stalinism? An interview with Jairus Banaji”, Platypus Review, no. 26 (2010). The Platypus Affiliated Society.
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