If Alpa Shah had her way (Shah 2013), civil
liberties and democratic rights platforms in India, currently speaking in the
name of citizenship or ‘the people’ (e.g. Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP),
Concerned Citizens Committee (CCC);
People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Independent People’s Tribunal for
Environmental and Human Rights (IPT))
would abandon their pretensions and
instead give themselves names such as “Committee for the Recognition of Maoist
Love and Marriage” (CRMLR) or “Union for the Promotion of the Sacral Parha Polity”
(UPSPP), and be in a much better position to advance the cause of the adivasis, in conjunction, of course,
with suitably re-educated Maoists.
In
her article (CofA 33:1:2013), Shah covers three broad themes: The first pertains
to the civil liberties movement in India; the second concerns villager support for
Maoists, and the third bears on the way Maoists create political consciousness and
citizenship in their own areas. The first two are not original, though poor
citation gives this impression, while her comments on the third border on the
incoherent.
Read on....
http://www.scribd.com/doc/166637586/COA-Reply-to-Alpa-Shah
or
http://www.academia.edu/4437783/Reflections_on_Civil_Liberties_Citizenship_Adivasi_Agency_and_Maoism_A_Response_to_Alpa_Shah
