Maoist revolutionary subjectivity: the Naxalite movements in India and the convergence between intellectuals and the revolutionary masses.

This article studies the ambiguous position intellectuals occupied in Maoism, and it focuses specifically on the revolutionary relationship between the masses and intellectuals in early Naxalite movements in India. Maoism traveled from China to India, and intellectuals played an essential role in this travel; but they are also fundamentally distrusted by Maoism in China. This paper focuses on the late 1960s Naxalite movements, which were conducted primarily by the tribal Santals. It also reads closely Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest as an anti-Maoist text, analyzing how Ray criticizes the urban Maoists but hesitates to represent the deprived tribal peasants. From the perspectives of the tribal people, the Maoists, and a non-Maoist Indian intellectual, the article aims to provide a unique window to understanding the complexity of the Maoist revolutionary subjectivity, in China and in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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